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mighty adverb Very, exceedingly. [DARE labels this usage “especially South, South Midland”]
1834 Crockett Narrative 41 I found it a mighty ticklish business, I tell you. 1863 Tesh CW Letters (Dec 5) Father I cant get You no caps to save my life I have tried mighty nigh every wher but I will keep a trying. c1900 (in 1997 Stoddard Quare Women 93) You all are the friendliest ladies I mighty nigh ever saw. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 394 I’m a-tellin’ ye hit takes a moughty resolute gal. 1937 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) I saw where a bear might nigh bit a dog in two. 1971 Granny Women 261 I was might’near froze t’death when I got there. 2005 Williams Gratitude 509 might near, might nigh = close to, approximately. “It was might nigh dark when he left here.”