Entry · catalog no. 6335
sho nuff
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interjection · adverb · south · 2026
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1.
Sure enough — an emphatic yes, or an affirmation that something is certainly and undeniably so.
“You coming to the cookout? Sho nuff.”
Origin & Attribution
Southern Black vernacular, a contraction of 'sure enough' long documented in the rural South and carried north in the Great Migration. Later stamped into pop memory by the Harlem-shogun villain Sho'nuff.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
south · 2026
Spoken by
south
$SHONUFThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Documented in Southern Black speech, 19th–20th century
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+ Cite a source"Sho'nuff" — The Last Dragon, film · 1985
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