-amundo

suffix

An intensifier.

OriginSpanish -mente →
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Meanings

suffix
  1. slangAn intensifier.

    How scared should you be? YIKESAMUNDO

    2001 April 1, David Lazaroff, Correctamundo!: Prickly Pete's Guide to Desert Facts & Cactifracts, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press, →ISBN, →OL
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    The days when The Fonz can come riding in and solve all my problems with a few choice words are long gone! So why don't you leave-amundo?

    1983 November 1, “Welcome Home: Part 2”, in Happy Days, season 11, episode 5, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard)

Origin

  1. Spanish-mente
  2. English-amundo

Pseudo-Hispanism, possibly from a confusion of Spanish -mente (adverbial suffix) with mundo (“world”). Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.

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APA

-amundo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-amundo

MLA

“-amundo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-amundo. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-amundo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-amundo.

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