hugy
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See also: húgy
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hugy, hogy, equivalent to huge + -y.
Adjective
[edit]hugy (comparative hugier or more hugy, superlative hugiest or most hugy)
- (archaic or dialectal, now rare or humorous) Huge; vast.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- Your threefold armie and my hugie hoſte,
Shall ſwallow vp theſe baſe borne Perſeans.
- 1773, John Dryden, Original poems by John Dryden, Esq., volume 6, page 146:
- His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd;
Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold.
- 1816, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, The Works of Henry Howard: Works of Wyatt:
- The earth hath wept to hear my heaviness,
Which causeless to suffer without redress
The hugy oaks have roared in the wind; […]
- 1887, George Saintsbury, A History of Elizabethan Literature, page 75:
- Whose rocky cliffs when you have once beheld,
Within a hugy dale of lasting night, […]
- 2019, Robin Bennett, The Hairy Hand:
- And I'll build the hugiest mansion all in yellow, bright green and pink - just at the end of the village and have a big knobbly gate fixed across the road.