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Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

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The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

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And now Eric Duft's answer establishes that the phrase was in use as early as 2001.

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer:

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

ADDED, 10/23/14:
And now Eric Duft's answer establishes that the phrase was in use as early as 2001.

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

ADDED, 10/23/14:
And now Eric Duft's answer establishes that the phrase was in use as early as 2001.

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Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

ADDED, 10/23/14:
And now Eric Duft's answer establishes that the phrase was in use as early as 2001.

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer:

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

ADDED, 10/23/14:
And now Eric Duft's answer establishes that the phrase was in use as early as 2001.

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Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

Totes is a shortened form of totally, amplified with the common present-day slang suffix -s (compare, for instance, awks for awkward). It was documented on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003 and has probably been around considerably longer: totally itself was identified by F.Zappa and M.U.Zappa, (“Valley Girl”, 1982) as a core emphatic in Proto-Valspeak.

Totes magotes is an emphatic reduplicative form, comparable to easy-peasy or itty-bitty. Several sources attribute its first appearance, and perhaps its coinage, to the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man (but, again, it may have been around longer):

SYDNEY: You know what, we should jam together sometime, man.
PETER: Yeah! Totally! Totes magotes! Cool!

A comment on this very clip at YouTube clearly (and possibly ironically) demonstrates exactly the same formation processes at work on “crazily adorable”:

Totes McGotes, it's cray-cray adorbs. —TheAndrewj96

ADDED:
The suggestion by Damkerng T. and the source linked by fayalif, that the gotes piece represents G.O.A.T. = Greatest Of All Time is attractive and plausible. I suspect, however, that this is a retrospective folk etymology. Certainly most users betray no consciousness of this origin, spelling the syllable gote rather than goat.

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