English

Etymology
Possibly from of "hell of" or "helluv".

Adverb
en-adv|-

1. slang very|Very, an intensifier of adjectives in their non-comparative form.

#:"I guess she seems hella stoned in her commercial."
#:"I've been a Star Wars fan since I was hella young."

1. slang really|Really, an intensifier of verbs.

#:"I can't tell you how much I hella love the new track."
#:"Jane was driving away, and the door was open, so I hella ran for it �"
#:"Oh.. today's Cyrell's bday.. we hella sang her happy birthday at the spot �"

1. slang A replacer of "a lot" or "helluv a lot".

#:" We paid hella for that Chinese cuisine."
#:"There are hella people here."

Quotations
seeCites

Contraction
hella

1. nonstandard Hell of.

Interjection
en-intj

1. nonstandard for sure|For sure, used to affirm what was just said.

#:"We definitely rocked that shit man!" "Hella!"

See also
hecka bowdlerization
helluva
Hella
wicked

References
Waksler, Rachelle (San Francisco State University), "A HELLA New Specifier". ¹

Category:English intensifiers

Finnish

Etymology
From the noun helle.

Noun
fi-noun|hell|type=10

1. range (for cooking)
2. oven

el:hella
io:hella
ru:hella
vi:hella

• 2007-12-11 01:39 - Circeus - /* Adverb */

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