totes malotes
- idiom
- /toʊts məˈloʊts/
- Slang
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totalmente
- I'm totes malotes excited for the concert tonight!
Examples
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They totes malotes forgot about the meeting.
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She is totes malotes ready for the exam.
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She was totes malotes surprised by the news.
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I am totes malotes excited for the concert!
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I'm totes malotes excited for the concert tonight!
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She was totes malotes surprised by the news.
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He is totes malotes ready to start his new job.
Synonyms
People say it to mean completely in casual talk
Antonyms
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
totes + malotes
This is a playful rhyming reduplication where the meaning 'totally/completely' is carried by 'totes' and 'malotes' is a nonce intensifier with no independent lexical meaning. A B1 learner who knows 'totes' could plausibly infer the overall emphatic meaning, but the second element is not semantically compositional and the pattern is colloquial and language-specific, so full predictability is limited.
Etymology
Totes malotes comes from people playing with words: they took totes, short for 'totally', and added a rhyming made-up word malotes to make it stronger and more playful. So, totes malotes means 'totally' or 'completely' and sounds more excited.