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huge
English
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian ka?karas (“hill”), Old High German h?h (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English h?ah (“high”). More at high.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /hju?d??/, [çu??d??]
- (US)
- (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA(key): /ju?d?/
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): [h?ud?]
Adjective
huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
- Very large.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
- (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast.
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Antonyms
- (very large): tiny, small, minuscule, midget, dwarf
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- huge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- huge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- e-hug, eugh, gehu
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hoige, houge, hugge, hoge, hogge, hoege, heug, heuge, hogh
Etymology
From Old French ahuge, a form of ahoge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hiu?d?(?)/
Adjective
huge
- huge, large, enormous
- great, severe, excessive, prominent
- numerous, plentiful
Descendants
- English: huge
- Scots: huge, hudge
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
huge
- hugely, greatly
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Middle French
Noun
huge f (plural huges)
- market stall
huge From the web:
- what huge means
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ginormous
English
Etymology
Blend of gigantic +? enormous
Merriam-Webster traces ginormous back to 1948, when it appeared in a British dictionary of military slang.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?a??n??(?)m?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m?s
Adjective
ginormous (comparative more ginormous, superlative most ginormous)
- (informal) Very large.
- 1986, Jazz (Autobot), Transformers The Movie
- “This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.”
- 1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World Book #7 page 20
- Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.
- 1986, Jazz (Autobot), Transformers The Movie
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- ginormously
- ginormousness
Translations
See also
- hunormous
ginormous From the web:
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- what enormous
- enormous means
- what does ginormous mean
- what is ginormous an example of
- what do enormous mean
- what does ginormous spell
- enormous antonym
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