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mysto en · ADJ

Etymology

From myst(ical) + -o. Compare mysto-magic.

Meanings

1. (dated, slang) Mystical, mysterious, weird.
   • Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself. Everybody's life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book. It's phony, goddamn it . . . but mysto ... and after a while it starts to infect you, like an itch, the roseola. 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 21:
   • It was the most mysto sensation, kissing each other that way without even wanting to come up for air, and that crazy hot storm roaring through all the trees outside. 1964, Kay Martin, The Disconnected, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 317:
   • Allen was as yet a virgin, and Jack remained a compulsive masturbator as always, so that their discussions were flavored with the mysto-decadent excitement of voyeurs. 1979, Dennis McNally, Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 66:
   • Amidst all the mysto verbiage I found various quarternities, including a categorization set of Toni Wolff's on Women: amazon, hetaera, mother, medium. 1997, Damien Broderick, The White Abacus, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 244:

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