mahoosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhuːsɪv/
ipa: /məˈhusɪv/
Forms: form: mahusive
Etymology: From massive; probably a blend of massive and a respelling of the letters hu in huge infixed in the former.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I haven't had any real problems with it, it's not the most reliable ISP I've ever used (mahoosive understatement), but considering it's free it's not too bad.
ref: 2000 March 27, Laurence Bogle, “Re: DF”, in alt.fab.robert-jordan (Usenet):
text: I even said to someone look at them mahoosive mosquitoes!! […] I tell ya, between the mahoosive mosquitoes, bees & wasps and caterpillars, I was VERY happy to get back to the city & it's pollution.
ref: 2002 September 24, “Frothie” [pseudonym], “Re: More Mahoosive Spiders :S”, in alt.babylon5.uk (Usenet):
text: We do have a rather mahoosive store locally.
ref: 2003 October 10, “Catkins” [pseudonym], “Re: Just ‘done’ Tescos”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet):
text: Picture this: we had a fat tourist: wandering along in a mahusive pair of budgie smugglers (Speedo's), and wearing this ridiculous flower hat; pawing over a local girl.
ref: 2007 February 26, John P. Wood, Woody’s World Turns Left … into South East Asia, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 247:
text: And on that note, I shall bid you all a fond au revoir. This scene-setting commentary will now end, and Phil Harlow will bring you all the action from the Stade de France before, during and after tonight's mahoosive match.
ref: 2007 October 20, Sam Lyon, “England v South Africa countdown”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2021:
text: Those destinations are the span of England. And it's not exactly a mahoosive country …
ref: 2010 January 23, “humble.life” [pseudonym], “Re: get this …”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):
text: Rachel McAdams showed off a mahusive baby bump while out and about in Notting Hill, London late yesterday afternoon. Which could just about be the most exciting thing to ever happen, today.
ref: 2012 July 6 (updated 2012 September 25), Gilly Ferguson, “Is Rachel McAdams pregnant!? Let’s examine the evidence (the bump)”, in Daily Mirror, London: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020:
text: Bass-thrum and glass-shard music swelled slowly in volume. Despite the sound's sweetness, its painful clarity, something in Ecko shivered – it jagged at his nerves like the old fingernails-down-a-blackboard trick. It was pure power, some ma-hu-sive engine that was just turning over, warming the fuck up.
ref: 2015 November, Danie Ware, “Muster”, in Ecko Endgame, London: Titan Books, Titan Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: So if you're shy about going to the gym because there is always someone next to you using mahoosive weights, don't be. You do your weights, just make every workout count.
ref: 2019 June 17, Matt Goulet, quoting Henry Cavill, “Henry Cavill Reveals His Secret to Getting Big Arms”, in Richard Dorment, editor, Men’s Health, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2020:
synonyms: word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Massive; huge; very large.