Hmm, connection's a bit thin surely ? Was personally using it long before Fred for instance.

And I dunno exactly how long for but it's been in the OED for a while (unsurprisingly they also have a first cite from 1948 in Eric Partridge's "Dictionary of Forces Slang").

Saje | July 11, 16:47 CET

Haha, wow, I wouldn't never thought of the connection to Fred. Like Saje, I was familiar with the word long ago and never thought the Mutant Enemy staff made it up for her or even a tradmark in her vocabulary.

CaptainB | July 11, 17:13 CET

I thought Fred said giganamous, not ginormous.

JuliaL | July 11, 19:08 CET

Wendy Patrakas said "ginormous."

Polter-Cow | July 11, 19:19 CET

ditto Saje. i was using it before she did too

buffyfanatic18 | July 11, 19:37 CET

my first sighting: on the back of Peter Townshend's first solo album, "Who Came First" in 1972, and I'm not kidding. although he spelled it "gynormous", but that's probably the UK alt. spelling.

annagranfors | July 11, 21:49 CET

I immediately thought of Fred saying giganimous too, but figured I was just not remembering something hse had said another time.

newcj | July 11, 22:04 CET

Yeah, don't remember the connection at all, but how thrilled am I that ginormous is in the dictionary? Seriously, cause one time at work I said to a customer that we only had ginormous gift boxes and my friend Jared made fun of me for weeks. Cause, of course, it wasn't a real word. But now it is. Ha!

Emma | July 11, 22:47 CET

Shakespeare used fake words all the time. If it's good enough for The Bard...

Love's Bitch | July 11, 23:17 CET

We need to get Gorramit into the Dictionary, Gorramit! ;)

TDBrown | July 12, 03:35 CET

Someone I worked with a few years ago introduced me to "ginormous." One of my professional goals is to work it into technical conversations every so often with some subtlety. So far so good.

Sunfire | July 12, 04:48 CET

Thinnest. Whedonesque. Link. Ever.

crossoverman | July 12, 05:26 CET

I have to admit, I was going to say something along the lines of Saje's comment yesterday but I figured it would be a waste of time given that I thought this story wouldn't be long for Whedonesque. I'm really surprised to see it still here, to be honest.

That said, if this thread does eventually lead to us getting Gorramit into the dictionary, then it will be worth it. Can't see it happening but then stranger things... ;)

WhedonTrivia | July 12, 18:47 CET