English
Alternative spellings
ever-so-, everso
Etymology
From ever and so
Adverb
en-adv|-
#Very, extremely
#*1823: John Howard Payne -- Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
#*2002: S. K. Elkins (poster on Harry Potter for Grownups Yahoogroup), re: Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. Yet Sympathetic. And Dead, Too (read at http://elkins.theennead.com/hp/archives/000109.html on 13 May 2006) - How bad is Voldemort? Ever so bad!
Usage notes
Note that ever so is sometimes not an adverbial phrase as defined above, but merely a juxtaposition of the two adverbs ever and so, with ever modifying a preceding verb and so intensifying a following adjective.
2003: Peter Lee, Halcyon days: How to lose a war in a week - Were ironic quotation marks ever so deserved?
Category:English intensifiers
ja:ever so
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