hugy

See also: húgy

English

Alternative forms

• howgy (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English hugy, hogy, equivalent to huge +‎ -y.

Adjective

hugy (comparative hugier or more hugy, superlative hugiest or most hugy)

1. (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.