pronto
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toʊ adverb Informal.
promptly; quickly.
Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; < Spanish (adj. and adv.) quick, quickly < Latin promptus prompt (adj.)
1840–50, Americanism; < Spanish (adj. and adv.) quick, quickly < Latin promptus prompt (adj.)
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| —adv | |
| informal at once; promptly | |
| [C20: from Spanish: quick, from Latin promptus | |
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Pronto
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Word Origin & History
pronto
1850, from Sp. pronto, perhaps infl. by It. pronto (borrowed by Eng. 1740), both from L. promptus (see prompt).
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pronto definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
If she hasn't done her homework for the week, she better get started pronto.
Unless your doctor books blocks of patients at once or an emergency crops up, you're likely to be seen pronto.
Make sure you bone up on your stereotype belief detector profiling skills pronto.
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