supersuperlative
English
Adjective
supersuperlative (not comparable)
- Alternative form of super-superlative
- 1845, Charles Cist, The Cincinnati Miscellany or Antiquities of the West: And Pioneer History and General and Local Statistics, C. Clark, Printer, page 101:
- Now, Cousin is an old maid, and a dreadful tidy woman. Like tidy women well enough, but can’t bear your dreadful tidy ones, because I am always in dread while on their premises, lest I should offend their supersuperlative neatness by a bit of gravel on the sole of my boot or such matter.
- 1862, Samuel Smith Nicholas, Conservative Essays, Legal and Political, J.B. Lippincott & Company, page 138:
- A border State ratter, a former leader of the Democracy, now a leader of the ultra Abolitionists, openly advocates in the Senate a change of our Government into a Consolidated Democracy; yet no man of either party rebukes such supersuperlative folly.
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