Meanings
comparative more horrificating · superlative most horrificating
- nonstandardrareHorrifying.
I have however had an horrificating barbecueueue^([sic]) underkill; […]
2002 July 8, Andrew Marshall, “I Love Britain!”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 20263 more examples
And not just. Jon Pilger did a nentirely^([sic]) horrificating wwp proggy about wot it's like in Iraq these days.
2001 January 12, Richard Robinson, “Some replies to "Merry christmas"...”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026Sure enough, a large and extremely well-favoured Red Devon bull was mooching toward us making that horrificating sound as he came.
2002 June 28, Trish Brown, “OT [off-topic]: boring story about Pony Club Jamboree”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026It is, however, horrificating the amount of informationary items I still need to go thru. I'm studying 4 ATmega controllers, 3 programming languages, and also putting together 3 hardware projects simultaneously.
2008 July 3, Bill Garber, “MeToo Children's Program”, in comp.sys.apple2.programmer (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
Origin
Possibly an alteration of horrified by back-formation from horrification.
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