Origin: 1925–30; < Japanesemondō, earlier mondau < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinesewèn inquire + dá reply
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mondo
2Slang.
adverb
1.
very; extremely: mondo cool.
adjective
2.
large; big: a mondo history paper.
Origin: < Italianmondo 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
"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.
mod. totally; very much. (California.) : This place is like, so, like, mondo beige.
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.