purrfectly
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From perfectly with the first syllable altered to purr. Compare purrfect.
Adverb
[edit]purrfectly (comparative more purrfectly, superlative most purrfectly)
- (colloquial, humorous) Perfectly, in contexts relating to cats.
- 2005, “Action/Adventure”, in Books for the Teen Age 2005, 76th edition, New York, N.Y.: New York Public Library, →ISBN, page 36, column 3:
- Hello Kitty Hello Everything! Abrams Purrfectly pretty collectibles
- 2015 June 25, Marissa Payne, “Hoops is catnip for ‘NBA Catwatch’”, in The Washington Post[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-24:
- Cats and basketball may not seem like a good mix, but for one Chicago-area man, they go together, um, purrfectly.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]purrfectly (comparative more purrfectly, superlative most purrfectly)
- Pronunciation spelling of perfectly.
- 1891 January 24, [Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “Voces Populi. At the Guelph Exhibition.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume C, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 40, column 2:
- An Amurrcan Girl. Father, see up there; there’s Byron. Did you erver see such a purrfectly beautiful face?
- 1898 June, “Among the Young Lions”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIII, number DCCCCXCII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., […], page 738, column 2:
- We have heard of a Writer to the Signet who spoke such exceedingly high English that a professional brother bluntly pronounced his conversation to be “purrfectly unintelligible.”
- 1899, W[illiam] F[ry] Shannon, “A Fight in the Dark”, in The Mess Deck, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. […], page 185:
- “We are purrfectly sober,” said Murphy, as if answering an accusation.