If I hear one more person utter the word “ginormous” (the portmanteau of “enormous” and “gigantic”), I will rip one of their eyeballs out and play ping-pong.
Here ends my brief and to-the-point pitting of this exceedingly annoying word and those who utter it.
I agree, but that wasn’t a ginourmous Pitting… Your serve…
I couldn’t even spell it right. Two outta three? 
Ginormous is a perfectly appropriate word under certain circumstances…mostly casual and in spoken terms alone. I can certainly imagine using the word ‘GINORMOUS’ to describe a big pustulent zit on my chin, or perhaps used to define the dimensions of my boyfriend’s willie. Sometimes ‘big’ or ‘gigantic’ just doesn’t do the subject justice yaknow?? 
I would never use it in written language, but again, others’ MMV there as well.
So, what’s yer’ problem again??
I never knew it had been around for nearly sixty years. It’s actually a real word! shock, horror
Then there is “gynormous” which is used to describe Ann Coulter.
It may be a real word, but it’s still a stupid one. What good is a redundant portmanteau? If you need to stuff two words into one, don’t have them mean the same thing.
Sounds like the OPer has a ginormous chip on his shoulder. He should probably kick back with a ginormous spliff and try to relax some.
It was on the small side. Once could perhaps say bittyscule
Huh. I wouldn’t have guestimated so long.
Me, I hate “guesstimate.”
Shudder.
I would, but I’m wary of possible ramipercussions.
I just don’t like the word. It’s irritating. Just as the word “paradigm” is apparently irritating when overused in corporate circles, “ginormous” is irritating when overused in my circles.
Fair enough. I retract my pitting of folks who use the word.
But the pitting of the actual word remains!
Bloody hell, that’s even older! Put the old fogeys to bed, I say.
Or you could have edited.
By the way, what the hell kind of word is ‘portmanteau’ anyway? Sounds kind of snobby to me.
It’s a cross between “portman” (Jewish actress) and “teau” (foot digit).
“Portmanteau” is, indeed, a portmanteau.
So it’s both snobby and irritating. 
Wow. I never knew the word was that old. The first I heard it was Will Ferrel using it on Elf. Man, am I out of the loop or what?
It’s a combination of the words ‘portugese man-o-war’ and ‘plateau,’ referring to that legendary hidden mesa where giant relics from the Age of Jellyfish have survived to this day. In this context the word signifies any sort of unusual hybrid, such as the race of coral-women that Doctor Challenger discovered in Valley of the Anthozoamazons.
It’s not anywhere near as annoying as planogram