monstrous

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

is much used by the vulgar for very, exceedingly.


Augustus is a monstrous pretty city; but it ain't the place it used to was, by a great sight. It seems like it was rotting off at both ends, and ain't growing much in the middle.--Maj. Jones's Sketches of Travel.

It's monstrous inconvenient and ridiculous.--Sam Slick in England.

He'll cut the same capers there he does here. He's a monstrous mean horse.--Georgia Scenes, p. 27.

Related Words