http://www.word-detective.com/2008/12/18/swimmingly/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.word-detective.com/2008/12/18/swimmingly/comment-page-1/#comment-24510 Duggan McC Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:02:57 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/2008/04/17/swimmingly/#comment-24510 Re: definition of swimmingly...Execellent! i first heard the word many years ago in the Marx Bros movie, "Coconuts". A villianess replied over the phone, "things are going just swimmingly". thus began my search for it's definitio, which led to my sometime use of swimmingly ( i use to inject humor in a convo and always wait to hear someone say, "SWIMMINGLY, what's that mean!) Yours was the best explaination i've read! I never knew it had Germanic roots. Your explaination was done... swimmingly! Re: definition of swimmingly…Execellent! i first heard the word many years ago in the Marx Bros movie, “Coconuts”. A villianess replied over the phone, “things are going just swimmingly”. thus began my search for it’s definitio, which led to my sometime use of swimmingly ( i use to inject humor in a convo and always wait to hear someone say, “SWIMMINGLY, what’s that mean!)
Yours was the best explaination i’ve read! I never knew it had Germanic roots. Your explaination was done… swimmingly!

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