precious
Regarded with love or tenderness.
(derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.
(informal) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
(informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned.
It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.
(derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.
(colloquial) Thorough; utter.
Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
“It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”
Very; (an intensifier).
“You can’t blame them,” said Dumbledore gently. “We’ve had precious little to celebrate for eleven years.”
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