hugeous

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Etymology

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From Middle English hugeous, hygys, equivalent to huge +‎ -eous.

Adjective

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hugeous (comparative more hugeous, superlative most hugeous)

  1. Huge.
  2. (of a noise or sound) Loud.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47–48:
      He made his hawke to fly,
      With hogeous showte and cry.

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