mongotacular = "enormous, staggeringly huge"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Apparently unique but noteworthy anyway :

"These drinks were coming in the mongotacular huge-o-rama sizes not meant for human consumption." - www.livejournal.com/users/pseudonymous/28173.html (Feb. 22, 2003).

JL




Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: Hugungous!
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Noted on Gawker.com :

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According to The New York Times’ William Grimes, memoirs are huge.
Huger than huge! Hugungous!
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A blend of "huge" and "hum-o/u-ngous"... though "humongous" is itself
supposedly a blend of "huge" and "monstrous" (or "tremendous"). So is
this a reblending?

Some Google-counts:

hugungous 90
hugongous 32

hujungous 12
hujongous 20 (incl. Urban Dictionary)

hugungus 25
hugongus 5

hugeungous 11
hugeongous 3

huge-ungous 21
huge-ongous 1


hugemongous 1,600 (incl. Urban Dictionary)
hugemungous 448

huge-mongous 301
huge-mungous 114

hugemongus 329
hugemungus 139 (incl. Urban Dictionary)

huge-mongus 37
huge-mungus 208


hugeomongous 34
hugeomungous 3

huge-o-mungous 21
huge-o-mongous 16

hugeamongous 33
hugeamungous 3

huge-a-mongous 20
huge-a-mungous 5


--Ben Zimmer


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