mondo bizarro
mondo bizarro noun: the world of the surreal or bizarre.
Noun
mondo bizarro (uncountable)
- The world of the surreal or bizarre.
- It was just part of a week in which the news..went further and further into the realm of Mondo Bizarro.1980 April 19, Washington Post, c1/1
- Like most of Goyen's fiction, the story is set in mondo bizarro and is an allegory of the kind of pinched, destructive moral code that hovers over East Texans like a poisonous fog.1995 January, Tom Pilkington, “A Twisted Family Feud”, in World & I
Adjective
mondo bizarro (comparative more mondo bizarro, superlative most mondo bizarro)
- Extremely bizarre.
- Mondo bizarro sauce—for your spaghetti.1977, Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook, Ten Speed Press, published 1977, →ISBN, page 69
- He claims that when Jackson became best friends with ‘Webster’ star Emmanuel Lewis.., they had an innocent, although mondo bizarro relationship.1990 October 23, “Unknown”, in New York Newsday, New York, NY, page i. 11/1
Forms of mondo bizarro
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | mondo-bizarro |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more mondo bizarro |
| superlative | most mondo bizarro |
Origin of mondo bizarro
From Italian mondo (“world”) and bizzarro (“bizarre”), originally from the 1966 film of that name.
Questions about mondo bizarro
- What does mondo bizarro mean?
- Mondo bizarro means the world of the surreal or bizarre.
- What part of speech is mondo bizarro?
- Mondo bizarro can be a noun or an adjective.
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