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eye-gougingly

eye-gougingly adverb: hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness.

Adverb

eye-gougingly (not comparable)

  1. (informal) hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness
    • 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.2010, Julie Kushner, Life Sucks, Death Bites, page 15
    • “And nothing could ever compel me to wear a gable, the most eye-gougingly ugly fashion accessory ever created.”2012, Katherine Longshore, Gilt

Origin of eye-gougingly

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

Questions about eye-gougingly

What does eye-gougingly mean?
Eye-gougingly means hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness.
What part of speech is eye-gougingly?
Eye-gougingly is an adverb.

Words near eye-gougingly in the dictionary

  1. eye-fucked
  2. eye-fucking
  3. eye-fucks
  4. eye-gate
  5. eye-glassed
  6. eye-gougingly
  7. eye-hand coordination
  8. eye-hand coordinations
  9. eye-hole
  10. eye-lash
  11. eye-lashes

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