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Right smart   /raɪt smɑrt/   Listen
Right smart

adverb
1.
To a great degree or by a great distance; very much ('right smart' is regional in the United States).  Synonym: way.  "Way off base" , "The other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"





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"Right smart" Quotes from Famous Books



... when he first met Baker, inquired of him if he had travelled much over the settlements of the United States before he came to the mountains; to which he said: "Right smart, right smart, Cap." He then asked whether he had visited New York or New Orleans. "No, I hasn't, Cap., but I'll tell you whar I have been. I've been mighty nigh all over four counties in the State ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... was Johnson," he mused, as his eyes swept the valley, "I'd head a right smart of ranch hands down here heeled with a spade an' a sexton's commission. These here late lamented dogies'll cost him somethin' in damages." From force of habit the man read the brands of the dead cattle as he rode slowly down the valley. "D bar C, ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... I is I can't recollect 'bout de war, but I'se heard my manny [TR: mammy] tell a little an' my gran'mammy tell a right smart 'bout dem slavery times ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration


Words linked to "Right smart" :   regionalism, considerable, way, colloquialism


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