English Explanatory Dictionary

to the nines

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. To perfection; fully, wholly.

Word forms

to the nines

Etymology

From Scots, perhaps a rebracketing of to then eyne (“to the eyes”) or to thyn eyne (“(up) to your eyes”).

Synonyms

all the way from soup to nuts in excelsis to the backbone to the bone to the brim to the core to the fullest to the full to the gills to the gunnels to the hilt to the max to the nines to the nth degree to the tonsils to the top of one's bent top to bottom up to eleven

Related words

dressed to the nines dressed up to the nines up to the nines
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