Friday 20th May 2016
Larruping \ [lar-uh-ping]
adverb, Chiefly Western U.S.
1. very; exceedingly:
Quote
They passed a post office that advertised locking mail boxes and a hotel where the
new arrival could find a larruping good meal and a soft bed for fifty cents--if he had fifty cents.
....Ron Arnold, The Grand Prairie Years: A Biography of W.C. Perry 1987
Origin
Larruping is an Americanism formed on the basis of the verb larrup meaning"to beat or
thrash." It entered English in the early 1900’s.
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