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单词 mondo bizarro
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mondo bizarron.adj.

Brit. /ˌmɒndəʊ bᵻˈzɑːrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈˌmɑndoʊ bəˈzɑroʊ/
Origin: A borrowing from Italian, combined with an English element. Etymons: mondo n.3, Italian bizzarro.
Etymology: < mondo n.3 + Italian bizzarro eccentric, weird (see bizarre adj. and n.), with spelling altered after bizarre adj. and n. or Spanish bizarro.In early use after the title of the 1966 U.S. film Mondo Bizarro (see quot. 1966 at sense A.). Some of the adjectival uses below may perhaps arise from interpretation of mondo as an intensifying adverb qualifying an adjective, but they may also be influenced by Spanish mondo pure, unadulterated: see mondo adv. and adj.2
colloquial.
A. n.
The world of the bizarre or surreal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > bizarreness > the world of the bizarre
mondo bizarro1966
1966 (title of film) Mondo bizarro.
1973 Texas Monthly Dec. 67/1 Senor Castillo recommends for December, ‘Pepe and his College Girls’, direct from Mexico City. Mondo bizarro.
1980 Washington Post 19 Apr. c1/1 It was just part of a week in which the news..went further and further into the realm of Mondo Bizarro.
1995 World & I (Electronic ed.) Jan. 330 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.
B. adj.
Very bizarre; tastelessly bizarre.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre
remote1533
antic1579
outlandish1588
bizarrea1648
outré1722
freakish1805
weird1820
freaky1824
weirdish1863
ostrobogulous1951
ostrobogulatory1952
far-out1954
weirdo1962
flaky1972
zonky1972
gonzo1974
mondo bizarro1976
mondo1979
woo-woo1986
freakazoid1990
1976 Texas Monthly Nov. 104/1 The paper excels in its handling of Mondo Bizarro material: the man killed by a bullet up his nostril, [etc.].
1977 M. Katzen Moosewood Cookbk. 69 Mondo bizarro sauce—for your spaghetti.
1990 N.Y. Newsday 23 Oct. i. 11/1 He claims that when Jackson became best friends with ‘Webster’ star Emmanuel Lewis..,they had an innocent, although mondo bizarro relationship.
2000 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Electronic ed.) 5 July 4 Decisions, decisions. If you are a fan of mondo-bizarro programs such as ‘Survivor’ and ‘Big Brother’, you have another choice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1966
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