mondo

Meanings

Noun

• A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

Adjective

• Big, large; major, significant.

Adverb

• Very, extremely, really.

Origin

• From Japanese 問答.
• From the title of the cult 1962 Italian documentary film Mondo cane, Italian for "A Dog's World", from mondo and cane. The film featured bizarre scenes, leading to English use of mondo as an adverb meaning "very, extremely" in mock-Italian phrases like mondo bizarro.