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Right smart

adjective

(Southern or Midland) considerable.

adverb

To a great degree or by a great distance; very much ('right smart' is regional in the United States). Synonym: way. "Way off base" , "The other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"

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"Right smart" Quotes from Famous Books

... that was the answer to an honest question. Oh my boy, I'd give twice the money we got for her, that I hadn't sold you that girl Zillah. When we took her to Cuba she pitched in and learned the language right smart; wonderful girl that; have you ...

— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

... light pressure of her arm into the up-town flux of the sidewalk. "If I was a right smart kind of a fellow I never would have helped you to get ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... right smart piece. But you can take a car. I'll walk with you to the car. There's a line a couple of squares up that goes almost by the door. You know it isn't far ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... plumb to—to—Phoenix and tell the Service to go find him, just to see them brown eyes of yours lookin' at me like that. But don't you say nothin' about this here committee meetin' to nobody. I reckon you played a trick on me for teasin' you. So you think Lorry is a right smart hombre, eh?" ...

— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert

... o' wood. One o' Bill's friends then cut Tom with a knife, slicin' a big chunk out o' him. Then Sam Jones, who was a friend of Tom's, shot the other feller and two more shot him, en three or four others got cut right smart by somebody. That nachly caused some excitement, Jedge, en then ...

— Good Stories from The Ladies Home Journal • Various

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