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huge

Pronunciation: /ˈhʉːɡə/

“huge” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to desire, long for, feel like; to have a wish or inclination for something
  2. to appeal to, to please; to be liked or found agreeable by someone
  3. to shout, yell, or bellow loudly and raucously

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse huga (“to think, reflect, consider”), from Proto-Germanic *hugōną (“to have in mind, think, consider”), synchronically analysable as *hugiz (“mind, thought”) + *-ōną. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk huge, huga, Danish hue, Icelandic huga, Faroese huga, and Dutch heugen.

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