hugeous

English

Alternative forms

• hogeous (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• hugeously