HUMONGOUS

m. LRH def. a mispronunciation of the clumsy dictionary word "hugeous" which nobody can say. It means super-enormousgargantuan- omnipotent. It is American slang and follows a pattern prevalent amongst Mississippi steamboat men to exaggeratedly mispronounce polysyllables [words having several, usually more than three, syllables] for the purpose of description and emphasis, which they picked up from expatriate English supereducated Renaissance men, offloaded to America. [LRH Notes 28 Nov. 1978]