英语词汇humongous的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	humongous
词源	humongous. Humongous got a lot of play in the 1980s as a term for a huge, monstrous person, often wrestlers weighing about 300 pounds. The word is often used humorously and though its origin is obscure it seems to be based, consciously or subconsciously, on words like huge, monstrous, and mountainous.
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