humongous

humongous
adj
enormous, terrifying, tremendous. A popular word among schoolchildren and teenagers since the late 1970s, this is an invention combining elements of huge, tremendous and enormous, on the lines of 'ginormous', 'sponditious', etc. It seems to have originated in the USA.
Man, I got a humungous thirst on me. 'Darlene and I just killed a huge spider -we hadda use a whole can, it was hu-mungous. '
(Roseanne, US TV comedy series, 1989)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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