Is it still slang, or is it now a real word? The Oxford English Dictionary introduced the term in 1989 but still marks it as “slang.” Merriam-Webster’s, however, counts it as “real.” In 2007, the dictionary admitted ginormous into its pages. M-W noted its etymology as a combination of gigantic and enormous.Click to see full answer. Furthermore, what type of word is ginormous?Ginormous is a non-standard word. Ginormous is an adjective that means very big. is enormous bigger than ginormous? As adjectives the difference between ginormous and enormous is that ginormous is (informal) very large while enormous is (obsolete) deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary. Keeping this in view, who invented ginormous? The first recorded mention of it is (as your quote says), from 1948: in fact, it was printed in a book called A Dictionary of Forces’ Slang 1939-45 published in London by Eric Partridge. The second citation is from another slang dictionary published in 1962, A Dictionary of Sailor’s Slang by Wilfred Granville.What is a portmanteau word?ːrtˈmænto?/ ( listen), /ˌp?ːrtmænˈto?/) or portmanteau word (from French porte-manteau) is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phonemes (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.
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