Eye-gougingly
adv, slang
adv, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness informal, not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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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