What do you think of the word "ginormous"?
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January 14th, 2009
A perversion of English language or a creative way to say “really big.”
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To be honest, being British, I think it’s a great word. It’s eccentric.
Are you trying to do a 1984 on us and try to narrow our vocabulary down?
I’m onto you btko
Haha, well the word was first used in the 1940’s or something like that and it caught on. Personally I don’t like it… what’s wrong with gigantic, huge, enormous, gargantuan… etc. There are so many good words that don’t sound lame :p
I like it.
Especially when uberbatman is describing the bowl his mom is going to have to smoke.
I dig the word—though like btko find that there are much better and more linguistically pleasing alternatives—when used in speech, but aesthetically the written word is absolutely vomit-worthy.
It reminds me of humongous and bazillion. It might be used to good humorous effect but it not to be taken seriously.
Fair enough, if the word is used for effect then I don’t mind. But people have taken to calling everything “ginormous.”
eg.
“I had a ginormous starbuck’s coffee!”
“No you didn’t, you had a large one.”
Every once in a while it’s funny. Said too often, and…not so much.
It’s like something that’s gigantically enormous. Can you imagine how big something that size would be?!?!?!?!
It’s indescribable OH WAIT NO IT’S NOT WE HAVE GINOURMOUS :D:D:D:D
For some reason every time I read the word I think of Ginormocologist their field of study Ginormocology. I really can’t figure why.
Grrr…it’s like “guesstimate,” which means I don’t like it! There’s “guess.” There’s “estimate.” Pick one! Or make up an entirely new word. “Ginourmous” and “guesstimate” and their ilk are lazy!
I don’t “impactful” either, but businessmen’s word wankery is an entirely different subject.
Mm, lazy or rather indecisive, it can very well require more energy being indecisive than to the point.
@aprilsimnel: how is combining two words to make one new one lazy? It seems very creative to me.
My 4 y.o uses it with vim and vigor. Much better than I ever could.
@morphail – I’m not saying it’s a rational feeling. Words will come from whatever source they’re going to come from. It’s only when I see those kinds of compound words, I think, “Here’s two words that already mean the same thing being smooshed together. Why?”
YMMV.
…I really should do voice overs of things like that…
I agree. Work it out, cage.
Not a bad word, but it’s no ridonculous.
Ginormous is awesome. Its just so much more epic than giant or enormous its GINORMOUS ZOMGS
Spell I-H-O-P and say “ness” after. // totally random
It is pure stupendousness.
I prefer words like Abso-fucking-lutely and In-fucking-credible but that’s just me. I never use ginormous.
@evelyns_pet_zebra True story: I once used the phrase Ele-fucking-mentary School in a sentence.
@augustlan fucking has so many applications, and not all of them concern copulation.
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