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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Huge, Hudge, a. Also: hug, hwge, hugis, hughe. [ME. huge (a 1275), hoge, hudge, etc., app. OF. ahuge, ahoge, in the same sense.] Very large, great, numerous, or important.Applied to both material things, persons, animals, etc., and non-material (as sounds, actions, height, etc.). In poetry frequently a disyllable.(1) (a) c1420 Wynt. I. 877.
A towre of huge [C. hugis, W. hughe] hycht 1490 Irland Mir. I. 82/25.
The huge and horrible dragoun 1513 Doug. iii. iii. 91.
Huge wallis [= waves] boldnyt apon loft Ib. vi. 116.
A huge deip gat [was] thar holkit Ib. x. 38.
A huge pepill we se Of Cyclopes 1531 Bell. Boece I. 172.
He beildit ane huge wall of fail and devait Id. Livy I. 238/7.
Ane huge multitude of Wolchis a1540 Freiris Berw. 211.
Ȝone troich … lyis mekle and huge in all ȝone nwke(b) a1500 Prestis of Peblis 73.
Ane hall [that] was large, richt hie and hudge 1570 Sat. P. xix. 89.
Hudge is ȝour fais within this fals regioun 1591-2 Rob Stene 17.
As montanis hudge and hie 1600-1610 Melvill 437.
Ane hors Als hudge as hill a1650 Row 330.
The … hudge inundation of raine(2) (a) a1400 Leg. S. xxviii. 671.
A gret hug thonir [com] but bad c1420 Wynt. i. 815.
Wormys … of hwge streynth Ib. iv. 1163.
Sa hwge crakyng and sic cry a1500 Henr. III. 168/84.
Our syn is huge 1472 Lennox Mun. 86.
As the said Lord … has … maid hugis expensis a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1225.
In hell of corporale fyre is huge heit 1513 Doug. i. viii. 128.
The huge ardent batalys at thar has beyn Ib. ix. 118.
Of siluer playt ane huge wecht Ib. iii. x. 113.
That thou eschapit sa mony perrellis huge 1531 Bell. Boece I. 44.
Seing the feild left efter sa huge murdir Ib. II. 122.
Sic huge and brime fury rais c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iv. 245.
Faltis [to] ouir se quhilkis he commitit huge(b) 15.. Clar. iv. 290.
Ane bulget … of ane hudge wecht 1560 Rolland Seven S. 2629.
The greit mischeif[is] … war sa hudge and vglie 1638 Baillie I. 109.
Great rumors of hudge preparation for horse and foot in England c1600 Montg. Suppl. 227/25.
I houpe for mercie, thocht my sinnis be hudge 1670 Salmon Borrowstounness 92.
The hudge and exorbitent pryces of penny brydells(3) c1475 Wall. xi. 29.
Off Glosyster that huge lord and her
