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hugy en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English hugy, hogy, equivalent to huge + -y.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, humorous) Huge; vast.
   • The earth hath wept to hear my heaviness, Which causeless to suffer without redress The hugy oaks have roared in the wind; […] 1816, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, The Works of Henry Howard: Works of Wyatt:
   • Whose rocky cliffs when you have once beheld, Within a hugy dale of lasting night, […] 1887, George Saintsbury, quoting Thomas Kyd, A History of Elizabethan Literature, page 75:
   • And I'll build the hugiest mansion all in yellow, bright green and pink - just at the end of the village and have a big knobbly gate fixed across the road. 2019, Robin Bennett, The Hairy Hand:
   • Your threefold armie and my hugie hoſte, Shall ſwallow vp theſe baſe borne Perſeans. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
   • His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd; Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold. 1773, John Dryden, Original poems by John Dryden, Esq., volume 6, page 146:

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