hideola

English

Etymology

From hideous +‎ -ola.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɪdiˈoʊlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪdiˈəʊlə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə
• Hyphenation: hid‧e‧ola

Adjective

hideola (comparative more hideola, superlative most hideola)

1. (slang) Hideous, ugly.
   • 1950, Truman Capote, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Other Stories, Vintage International, published 1993, →ISBN, page 83:

     He's friendly, he can laugh me out of the mean reds, only I don't have them much any more, except sometimes, and even then they're not so hideola that I gulp Seconal or have to haul myself to Tiffany's: […]

   • 1989, Julie Burchill, Ambition, Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 85:

     I heard on the grapevine he is absolutely hideola — even for a man. You know the type — makes Phil Collins look like Mel Gibson.

   • 1995, Charlotte Vale Allen, Somebody's Baby, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 110:

     They start wearing hideola designer clothes they think look good just because they cost a lot.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hideola.