mondo

noun, plural mon·dos. Zen.

1. a question to a student for which an immediate answer is demanded, the spontaneity of which is often illuminating.

adverb

1. very; extremely: mondo cool.

adjective

2. large; big: a mondo history paper.

adj.“very much, extreme,” 1979, from Italian mondo “world,” from “Mondo cane,” 1961 film, literally “world for a dog” (English title “A Dog’s Life”), depicting eccentric human behavior; the word was abstracted from the original title and taken as an intensifier.