super adv.
(US) as an intensifier, extremely, very.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Satiromastix IV iii: omn.: Excellent. tuc.: Super Super-excellent. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Tom Thumb I ii: O happy Tommy! super-happy Thumb. | |
| Americans Abroad II ii: The young man, Nathaniel Larkspur, who brings this letter, I can recommend as a super-excellent postillion. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Clockmaker II 199: I believe you might stump the universe for cider – that caps all – it’s super-excellent. | |
| ‘Allowed To Be Drunk On The Premises’ Dublin Comic Songster 289: Sam Swipes to a house t’other day, / Went to drink of some super-brown stout, sir. | |
| Sam Slick in England II 127: Where onder the sun, sais I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-superior galls as these. | |
| Nature and Human Nature II 18: A pinch ob most elegant super-superior yellow snuff. | |
| Trilby 166: It is a quite superexcellent ditty. | |
| Golden Boy I ii: I’m super-disgusted with you! | |
| Grass in Piccadilly 34: He hated [...] her bloody little dogs and those super bloody friends of hers. | |
| Jennings Goes To School 12: We went to Guernsey by air; it was super-delectable. | |
| Voices from the Love Generation 5: To wear it [American flag] on your shoulder was regarded as a callous, blasphemous, sacrilegious, super-unpatriotic act. | |
| Snakes (1971) 104: He’s so cool, super-cool. | |
| Collura (1978) 176: Tell the clerk this is a super-rush job. | |
| Chili 14: Supergroovy mental and chemical compatibility. | |
| Tragic Magic 97: He got super pissed. | |
| Midnight Lightning 48: Their superfunky eponymous album. | |
| Soothing Music for Stray Cats 90: A friggin’ prison [...] a super-posh Strangeways. | |
 | Pando Qly Spring 34/2: It was super fucking weird. |
In compounds
see superfly adj.
extremely large, outsized; remarkable, stupendous.
| Code of Woosters 130: Big is right, though perhaps ‘super-colossal’ would be more the mot juste. | |
| Full Moon 92: ‘Her profile. Lovely, don’t you think?’ ‘Yup.’ ‘And her eyes. Super-colossal.’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 131: You bet. Space men. [...] Thrilling. Super-colossal. | |
| Dream of Peter Mann Act I: I want to be stinking rich, open the most super-colossal Superstore you ever saw. |
extremely relaxed, sophisticated.
| Getting Straight 27: I’ve had my one little fix. Back in my pre-beat super-cool hyper-hip days. | |
| Snakes (1971) 104: He’s so cool, super-cool. | |
| Guardian Guide 29 May–4 June 52: The super-cool long running drug-dealing bogey-man of Baltimore. |
very fat.
| Small Bachelor 48: ‘Important people!’ Mr. Waddington snorted sternly, ‘A bunch of super-fatted bits of bad news.’. | |
| Dragons are Extra 212: A bald, double-chinned type who looked very like a super-fatted edition of ex-President Hoover [OED]. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | ‘Village Voices’ in Times of India CLXIII:25 on Gyandoot.nic.in 🌐 This model should ideally be replicated in as many rural areas as possible. The only people complaining will be superfatted bureaucrats and lethargic politicians rendered increasingly irrelevant by the spreading web of information. |
see separate entry.
(US black) excellent, first-rate.
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 super saucey Definition: term that describes something that is very good. Example: That car is super saucey. |
(Aus./N.Z.) excellent, wonderful, superb.
| Alexandra & Yea Standard (Vic.) 23 June 3/2: Melbourne Pig prices [...] Our 120 Tops av. £7/10/3, a supersnaggetty run. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | (ref. to 1890s) Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 109/2: supersnagative first rate; eg ‘I didn’t know you made pin cushions. That detail is lovely. Supersnagative.’ c. 1890. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |