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totus porcus

totus porcus adverb: completely; unreservedly.

Adverb

totus porcus (comparative more totus porcus, superlative most totus porcus)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) Completely; unreservedly.
    • I swallowed the official version totus porcus.
    • As a founding principle of our trip, Margaret and I decided that if we were going to go, we would go whole hog, totus porcus, super deluxe all the way1996 February 25, Michael Korda, “The Nile in High Style”, in New York Times, Travel section

Forms of totus porcus

comparativemore totus porcus
superlativemost totus porcus

Origin of totus porcus

Pseudo-Latinism, a reduplication derived from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + porcus (“hog”); translated as whole hog.

Questions about totus porcus

What does totus porcus mean?
Totus porcus means completely; unreservedly.
What part of speech is totus porcus?
Totus porcus is an adverb.

Words near totus porcus in the dictionary

  1. totty
  2. tottyhead
  3. tottyheads
  4. totuava
  5. totuavas
  6. totus porcus
  7. toty
  8. Totzke
  9. Totzkes
  10. TOU
  11. tou-kung

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