Ginormosly Po'd

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Somebody used the word ginoromose in a meeting yesterday claiming that the show entorage createed the word.
Entorage is a god show but I remember the movie Madeline using the word to explain her scar, in what I think is a hugely underated movie.
Anyone remember an earlier uses Madelines probably from the mid 90's.
Has a good Carly Simon song at the end, probably the only on aside from your so vain and mockingbird that I can listen to.

 

[kdibattista]

The first time I heard it was the movie "Elf"

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

The first time I heard it was the movie "Elf"

ditto... I thought it was funny, but never dreamed it would become a new word in our language

 

[cheyita]

The first time I heard it was the movie "Elf"

 

[lyzziesmom]

I have been using ginormous since at least college (in the early 90s) AND have never watched Entourage, so I'm sure it came from somewhere else. I just don't know where - as is true with most of my college era memories.

 

[becker1123]

OP, I'm with you. The first time I heard it was in the movie Madeline, which came out in the late '90s I think. I kind of thought it had been made up for the movie, but maybe it was already out there. Entourage definitely did not make up the word, or if they did, they weren't the first.

 

[Beth76]

Yeah, Ginormous goes back way further than Entourage. Probably the 90s, maybe even the 80s. Right along there with Fantabulous.

 

[ToasterWaffle]

I knew someone in 1988 who used it when describing a woman with large frontal appendages. I remember the date because I'd never heard the term before and I really couldn't believe that I was having that particular conversation at work with a guy I had just met since I had just started working there a couple of weeks earlier.

 

[JR6ooo4]

I don't know when entourage aired but the word was quoted in a book 1988



ginormous
From Wiktionary
[edit] English

[edit] Etymology
Portmanteau word of gigantic and enormous.


[edit] Adjective
ginormous (comparative more ginormous, superlative most ginormous)

Positive
ginormous
Comparative
more ginormous
Superlative
most ginormous


Very big.
He drove up in a ginormous stretch limo.
That book was ginormous!




[edit] Translations
French: gigantesque



[edit] Quotations
1988 Andrew Radford - Transformational Grammar: A First Course
when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous concocted out of gigantic and enormous) then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ginormously) can also be used.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Entorage did not claim inventing it, just the person at my job credited them.