English
Alternative forms
ever-so-, everso
Adverb
ever so (not comparable)
- Used other than as an idiom: see ever, so.
- 2003: Peter Lee, Halcyon days: How to lose a war in a week
- Were ironic quotation marks ever so deserved?
- Very, extremely
- 1823: John Howard Payne -- Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
- He was five feet six, I should judge, and had his grip on the handle–end of ever so many millions.
- 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 [] on 13 May 2006) - How bad is Voldemort? Ever so bad!
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