Hugonian

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English

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Etymology

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From Hugo +‎ -n- +‎ -ian.

Noun

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Hugonian (plural Hugonians)

  1. A native or resident of one of several places in the United States called Hugo, of which the most populous is Hugo, Minnesota.

Adjective

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Hugonian (comparative more Hugonian, superlative most Hugonian)

  1. Native to, related to, or residing in a place called Hugo.
  2. Related to, or reminiscent of the work of the French writer Victor Hugo.
    • 1885, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 60, page 261:
      Perhaps it is that, as Dr. Polliott remarked of Captain Fitzchrome, he was at a very strict college, where a quotation or any other act showing overt acquaintance with Hugonian literature would have been visited with a severe penalty.
    • 1931, . George Saintsbury, chapter V, in A Consideration of Thackeray:
      The wonderful Hugonian catalogue of names -- so effective in poetry, so superfluous in prose -- are capitally treated.

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