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humongously en · ADV

Etymology

From humongous + -ly.

Meanings

1. (informal) In a humongous manner.
   • Extra large liv rm, humongously large kitchen, utility area, central hear-air, ½ acre wooded lot on high knoll. 1973 June 7, The Durham Sun, volume 85, number 87, Durham, N.C., page 7-C:
   • No humongously outstretched turn signals. 1975 July, the Staff of Trail Bike, “Big Four First: No Turn Signals, No Trials Tires, A Real Trail Bike!: Honda MR175 Elsinore”, in Dirt Bike, volume five, number seven, page 37:
   • One is a humongously fascinating person named Howard who wants to make me his wife. 1981, Virginia Euwer Wolff, quoting Judy, Rated PG, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 130:
   • 1E2 was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual champ 3E1, despite good goaltending by an humongously riptided knuckle-bloodied score of five to two. 1978, Muster ’78, page 103:
   • Have a humongously super time in Florida. 1979 March 14, Classy Bunch alias Munch Bunch, “Jerry & Peg!!”, in Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page 21:
   • Then there are those times we can almost visualize humongously heavy burdens on people’s shoulders. 1981, Lee Sparks, editor, The Youth Group How-to Book: 66 Practical Projects and Programs to Help You Build a Better Youth Group, Loveland, Colo.: Group Books, →ISBN, page 145, column 1:
   • This is important because we cannot possibly measure each and every aspect of a certain content area; the required test would be “humongously” long. 1980, L. R. Gay, Educational Evaluation & Measurement: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 167:
   • May your reputation gain humongously, but don’t overexert yourself or big ben! 1969 November 26, Flambeau, volume 56, number 49, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6:
   • First of all, they’re just about the most humongously huge lip glosses you’ll ever run across. 1977 December 20, “Bonne Bell… cosmetics for young women of all ages”, in Great Falls Tribune, 92nd year, number 221, Great Falls, Mont., page 11:
   • I hesitate because my best friend Anita is a pig, a real skag, and humongously rotund. 1981 April, “Dear Abyss”, in Crazy Magazine, number 73, Marvel Comics Group, page 57, column 2:
   • But the administrators’ imaginations failed when confronted with the miles of railroad track and 13 large warehouses scattered about the 1,000-acre campus near the Colorado border. The buildings were used in World War II to repair freight cars used to haul munitions. A few are a block long and two stories high. “We didn’t know what to do with them,” reported administrator Gary Green. “They were so humogously big. They just lay dormant.” 1977 February 13, Lynda McDonnell, “Railroad, college link up for profit”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CX, number 265, page 11C:
   • Of course, they couldn’t use their hands to eat or drink, and so food and liquids made their faces humongously messy. 1981, Michael Moynahan, How the Word Became Flesh: Story Dramas for Worship and Religious Education, Resource Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 61:
   • There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.” 2004, Tom Burns, Jeffrey W. Hunter, editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 187, Gale, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 15:
   • I called because I’m going to be in the States in a week or so to play in one of those humongously vulgar tournament-of-champion events that the networks like to arrange. 1980, Cleo Birdwell [pseudonym; Don DeLillo], Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, pages 139–140:

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