adv. (colloquial).—A general intensitive. See AWFUL, BLOODY, LARGE, etc.

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  1619.  FLETCHER, The Wild-Goose Chase, ii. 2. She is MONSTROUS proud, then?

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  1635.  GLAPTHORNE, The Hollander, ii. 1. The very scraping of our Galley-pots performes more MONSTROUS wonders.

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  1693.  CONGREVE, The Old Batchelor, iv. 4. O MONSTROUS filthy fellow.

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  1843.  W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Courtship, xvii. That makes mother MONSTROUS jealous.

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