Did You Know That Hellacious Is Slang?
I did not know. But it was not in the spell checker. I was not surprised. The spell checker doesn’t have every word. So I looked it up.
What I find most amusing is that it is in league with the word bodacious, a word that I associate with An Officer and a Gentlemen, as in bodacious tatas.
Hellatious: adjective Slang.
1.remarkable; astonishing: They’re raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
2.formidably difficult: We had a hellacious time getting here in the blizzard.
Also, hel·la·ceous.[Origin: hell + -acious (extracted from audacious, sagacious, vivacious, etc.), perh. with intensive or aug. force; cf. bodacious, splendacious]
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Splendacious?
(Does that mean “fewer calories than sugar”?)