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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hugeous en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English hugeous, hygys, equivalent to huge + -eous.

Meanings

  1. Huge.
  2. (of a noise or sound) Loud.
    • He made his hawke to fly, With hogeous showte and cry. c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47–48:

Forms

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more hugeous Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most hugeous Degree=Sup lexicographic
hogeous alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Deriveds

hugeously