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English
Etymology
From hideous + -ola.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hideola (comparative more hideola, superlative most hideola)
- (slang) Hideous, ugly.
1950, Truman Capote, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Other Stories, Vintage International, published 1993, →ISBN, page 83:He's friendly, he can laugh me out of the mean reds, only I don't have them much any more, except sometimes, and even then they're not so hideola that I gulp Seconal or have to haul myself to Tiffany's: […]
1989, Julie Burchill, Ambition, Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 85:I heard on the grapevine he is absolutely hideola — even for a man. You know the type — makes Phil Collins look like Mel Gibson.
1995, Charlotte Vale Allen, Somebody's Baby, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 110:They start wearing hideola designer clothes they think look good just because they cost a lot.
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