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shonuff

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See also: sho nuff

English

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Adverb

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shonuff (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of sho nuff (sure enough)
    • 1977, Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 199:
      Now, me bein me, I had to correct my man's "bad grammar." I said, "Hey, watch yo dialect — it's you and J have some work to do." He turned fifty shades o' red, and I split. Naturally, that siggin of mine had shonuff blowed the possibility of me gittin any grant money!
    • 1998, Sonia Sanchez, “For Tupac Amaru Shakur”, in Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 122:
      love yo self / til you resist being a shonuff stud fuckin / everything in sight, til you resist raping / yo sister, yo wife, somebody's grandmother.
    • 2021, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 156:
      They get on my nerves, shonuff, but rabbits is still God's creatures. And sometimes, we creatures got to look out for each other.