amogus
/əˈmoʊɡəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Among Us, a 2018 social deduction game developed by Innersloth.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of amogus (“a crewmate or impostor character from the video game Among Us”).
Example Sentences
- "Can I get a^([sic]) ipad,^([sic]) and pillow that looks like Amogus and a Baby Alive. Love, Kyleigh […] For Christmas, I would like an Among Us plushy^([sic]) because I love Among Us. […] Love, Jaxton"
- "While the peak of Among Us memes has been comfortably left in 2021, there are still dark remnants of the past remaining in pop culture today. One has to look no further than a surprise "amogus" in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga."
- "We reached out to Innersloth to hear the devs' thoughts on the popular amogus art template. Community director Victoria Tran sent over a brief comment."
- "For example, the Scholar’s Scavenge that spanned most of the first day sent randomised teams to the Siam Amazing Park to tick off a list of increasinbly bizarre ice-breaking prompts, including “film a singing duel between the best and worst singers”, “show a WSC staff member a wild amogus”, “Initiate a dinosaur-alpaca feud”, and many, many more."
- "Playing AMOGUS with your friends during lunch #sus"
- "“The funny part is, that this kind of gameplay actually makes sense lol, what did people honestly expect? DBZ [Dragon Ball Z] battles? When this was announced I was either expecting some Amogus type gameplay or a hard visual novel to imitate the thinking battles, and we both know how toxic one of those is to the mainstream audience (I have to READ what?!),” one YouTuber commenter states."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Germanic *ga- Proto-West Germanic *ga- Old English ġe- Old English mang Old English ġemang Old English onġemang Old English amang Middle English among English among Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé Proto-Germanic *uns Old English ūs Middle English us English us English amogus Corruption of Among Us, the name of a 2018 social deduction game developed by Innersloth. Popularized by memes around January 2021, in which a StoneToss comic is edited to say "amogus" in a humorous non sequitur.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈmoʊɡəs/
- British English: /əˈməʊɡəs/