hideola

English

Etymology

hideous +‎ -ola

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /hɪdiˈoʊlə/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪdiˈəʊlə/
Rhymes: -əʊlə
Hyphenation: hid‧e‧ola

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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hideola.

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