Hugungous!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Noted on Gawker.com <http://www.gawker.com/news/media/books/index.php>:

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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