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hideola

adj
/hɪdiˈoʊlə/US/hɪdiˈəʊlə/UK

Etymology

From hideous + -ola.

  1. derived from *h₂egʰ-✻
  2. derived from *agaz✻
  3. derived from *agisōn✻
  4. derived from *agisiþu✻
  5. derived from hisda
  6. derived from hideus
  7. derived from hidous
  8. inherited from hidous
  9. suffixed as hideola — “hideous + ola”

Definitions

  1. Hideous, ugly.

    • He's friendly, he can laugh me out of the mean reds, only I don't have them much any more, except sometimes, and even then they're not so hideola that I gulp Seconal or have to haul myself to Tiffany's: […]
    • I heard on the grapevine he is absolutely hideola — even for a man. You know the type — makes Phil Collins look like Mel Gibson.
    • They start wearing hideola designer clothes they think look good just because they cost a lot.

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