hugy

comparative hugier · comparative more hugy · superlative hugiest · superlative most hugy · alternative dialectal howgy

1. archaicdialectalhumorousHuge; vast.

   Whose rocky cliffs when you have once beheld, Within a hugy dale of lasting night, […]

   1887, George Saintsbury, quoting Thomas Kyd, A History of Elizabethan Literature, page 75

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   Your threefold armie and my hugie hoſte, Shall ſwallow vp theſe baſe borne Perſeans.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii

   His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd; Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold.

   1773, John Dryden, Original poems by John Dryden, Esq., volume 6, page 146

   The earth hath wept to hear my heaviness, Which causeless to suffer without redress The hugy oaks have roared in the wind; […]

   1816, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, The Works of Henry Howard: Works of Wyatt

   And I'll build the hugiest mansion all in yellow, bright green and pink - just at the end of the village and have a big knobbly gate fixed across the road.

   2019, Robin Bennett, The Hairy Hand