humongously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more humongously
form: most humongously
Etymology: From humongous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: May your reputation gain humongously, but don’t overexert yourself or big ben!
ref: 1969 November 26, Flambeau, volume 56, number 49, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6:
text: Extra large liv rm, humongously large kitchen, utility area, central hear-air, ½ acre wooded lot on high knoll.
ref: 1973 June 7, The Durham Sun, volume 85, number 87, Durham, N.C., page 7-C:
text: No humongously outstretched turn signals.
ref: 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:
text: 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.”
ref: 1977 February 13, Lynda McDonnell, “Railroad, college link up for profit”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CX, number 265, page 11C:
text: First of all, they’re just about the most humongously huge lip glosses you’ll ever run across.
ref: 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:
text: 1E2 was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual champ 3E1, despite good goaltending by an humongously riptided knuckle-bloodied score of five to two.
ref: 1978, Muster ’78, page 103:
text: Have a humongously super time in Florida.
ref: 1979 March 14, Classy Bunch alias Munch Bunch, “Jerry & Peg!!”, in Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page 21:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: This is important because we cannot possibly measure each and every aspect of a certain content area; the required test would be “humongously” long.
ref: 1980, L. R. Gay, Educational Evaluation & Measurement: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Of course, they couldn’t use their hands to eat or drink, and so food and liquids made their faces humongously messy.
ref: 1981, Michael Moynahan, How the Word Became Flesh: Story Dramas for Worship and Religious Education, Resource Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 61:
text: One is a humongously fascinating person named Howard who wants to make me his wife.
ref: 1981, Virginia Euwer Wolff, quoting Judy, Rated PG, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Then there are those times we can almost visualize humongously heavy burdens on people’s shoulders.
ref: 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:
text: I hesitate because my best friend Anita is a pig, a real skag, and humongously rotund.
ref: 1981 April, “Dear Abyss”, in Crazy Magazine, number 73, Marvel Comics Group, page 57, column 2:
text: There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.”
ref: 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:
glosses: In a humongous manner.