salement

French

adv
Definitions
  • dirty, dirtily
  • (slang) Intensitive adverb : very, really. (in a bad way) "J'ai été salement amoché par une crise néphrétique" (, Letters) : "I've been really banged-up by renal crisis"
  • (slang) Related to the precedent (antiphrasis) : very, really (in a good way) " Faut acheter des sardines [...] C'est salement bon !" (_Louis Pergaud, La Guerre des boutons) : "We got to buy sardines [...] It's really good !"

Etymology

Affix from French sale (dirty).

Origin

French

sale

Gloss

dirty

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Property

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