Comments on: Irregular Etymology: Gigundous

By: roy

roy — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:03:27 +0000

I first heard “gigundous” when my high-school girlfriend used it in 1976! I guess it’s been around longer than most people think.

By: someguy

someguy — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:41:07 +0000

A cross between “Gigantic” and “Humongous” which obviously means something really large. This is funny because Humongous is a word derived from the combination of “Huge” and “Enormous”. It seems we English speakers feel like we need to revise our words for “Extremely Large” every so often in order to do justice to the emotion we feel when we see something just that darned BIG…

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:03:49 +0000

As the wife of J. Matthew, I’d always thought he had made up the word “gigundous”. Imagine my surprise to learn that someone else had heard the word.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:38:35 +0000

nah, I’ve heard gigundus. Granted, not very often (it’s “uncool”)… but I’ve heard it.

By: HareTrinity

HareTrinity — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:38:56 +0000

I’ve heard “gigantic” and “ginormous” before… “Gigundous” definitely sounds like a slang mix-up.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:58:33 +0000

You say you’ve heard it all the time? I’ve never heard that term, and working around junior high-aged kids all day, you’d think I would have. Oh well, learn something new everyday.

The first thing that comes to mind as qualifying as ‘gigundous’ is the price of the plasma tv I have my eye on. At $6995 for a 42 in., I think that qualifies. If the price comes down to a more affordable level, could the price be considered ‘de-gigundified?’

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:50:50 +0000

I looked in the Merriam-Websters dictionary and the Cambridge dictionary with no success. However, on http://www.slanginsider.com, it was listed as a slang term for “huge or gigantic.” The site says it’s an adjective with origins in the U.S.