exactamundo
advEtymology From exact + -amundo as an intensifier; compare Spanish exactamente. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.
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Slang Exactly.
- Exactamundo.1976 January 20, James Ritz, “Football Frolics”, in Jerry Paris, director, Happy Days, season 3, episode 18, spoken by Fonzie (Henry Winkler):
- Exactamundo.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1017:
2 more examples
- Since I am a writer, I can be more concerned with more important things like writing a sentence until I get it right, because I can't seem to get it exactamundo, and until I get it exactamundo, I can't exactly go on to the next sentence2002 November 25, Nathan Leslie, Rants & Raves, PublishAmerica, →ISBN, →OL, page 110:
- Exactamundo! Well ... almost exactamundo.2010 July 16, Ralph Raab, The Gutenberg Gambit: The Second Adventure from the Biblio Files, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL:
- Related terms
- correctamundo, perfectamundo