Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eye-gougingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eye---goug-ing-ly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness

Informal

Example Sentences

"I'm about to return the telephone to its cradle, and resume work on Candidate Two, when a middle-aged woman dressed in an eye-gougingly hideous neon orange floral print dress approaches my door."
"“And nothing could ever compel me to wear a gable, the most eye-gougingly ugly fashion accessory ever created.”"
"God-given talent has little to do with it. Chick's draftsmanship is amateurish, at best crudely effective, at worst eye-gougingly awful."

Etymology

From eye + gouging + -ly, suggesting that one would gouge out one's own eyes rather than look at something so ugly.

Usage

Informal

Questions

What does eye-gougingly mean?: hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness
Where does eye-gougingly come from?: From eye + gouging + -ly, suggesting that one would gouge out one's own eyes rather than look at something so ugly.

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