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Like to

/[laɪk.tə]/ adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    nearly; almost Southern-US, not-comparable

    "And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died."

Etymology

Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)

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