vachementadv.
[vaʃmɑ̃]
really, hugely — the everyday intensifier (literally ‘cow-ly’)
In a sentence
- Ton gâteau est vachement bon !Your cake is seriously good!
- On a vachement apprécié votre accueil.We really appreciated your welcome.
Nobody quite knows how ‘vache’ — cow — became an intensifier, but since the 1930s the French have found things vachement bien without blinking an eyelid.
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