mondo
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mondo
2 Slang. adverb
1.
very; extremely: mondo cool.
adjective
2.
large; big: a mondo history paper.
Origin:
< Italian mondo world, extracted from the film Mondo Cane (1961) and reinterpreted as an adv. in Italian or pseudo-Italian phrases such as mondo bizarro very bizarre, literally, bizarre world
< Italian mondo world, extracted from the film Mondo Cane (1961) and reinterpreted as an adv. in Italian or pseudo-Italian phrases such as mondo bizarro very bizarre, literally, bizarre world
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Word Origin & History
mondo
"very much, extreme," 1979, from It. mondo "world," from "Mondo cane," 1961 film, lit. "world for a dog" (Eng. title "A Dog's Life"), depicting eccentric human behavior; the word was abstracted from the original title and taken as an intensifier.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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mondo definition[ˈmɑndo]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences from the web
They are hesitant to follow orders from mondo, but they oblige when they are threatened.
Mondo croquet mondo croquet is just like regular croquet only much bigger.
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