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God's own

God's own adjective: an intensifier conveying exceptionality or indispensability.

Adjective

God's own (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) An intensifier conveying exceptionality or indispensability.
    • Oscar was one of God’s own prototypes—a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production.1977 December 15, Hunter S. Thompson, “The Banshee Screams For Buffalo Meat”, in Rolling Stone, number 254, page 59
    • "I think you are beginning to behave just like these jerks who come from their fucking rotten training camps thinking they are God’s own fucking guerrillas."2011, Mirza Waheed, The Collaborator, →ISBN, page 89

Origin of God's own

From God's own country.

Questions about God's own

What does God's own mean?
God's own means an intensifier conveying exceptionality or indispensability.
What part of speech is God's own?
God's own is an adjective.

Words near God's own in the dictionary

  1. God's life
  2. God's medicine
  3. God's minstrel
  4. God's minstrels
  5. God's number
  6. God's own
  7. God's own country
  8. God's own county
  9. God's penny
  10. God's teeth
  11. God's token

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