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Disastrous? Calamitous? Both fairly common, I think. But neither of them end in -dous is the onliest thing.
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What about two candidate words:
propagandous ;(seen on Urban)
gourmandous ; seen in a blog discussion about food
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From amphipodous to vanadous ( link) and back again.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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but still, this doesn't touch the 166 to be found in OED.
-joe (I'm just sayin') friday
NB: there is nothing stupendous (or stupidous) about these; they just happen to be words ending in 'd' which have had the suffix -ous affixed to them.
-ron o.
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Hum, as jeopardous and hazardous are related to the verbs jeopardize and hazardize, I thougt there might be at least some system in this dousness. Not. Arbitrary and random.  Like the weather. BTW, : what's apodous and where can I find those 166? if you please?
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>where can I find those 166? if you please?
not to be ron about it, but in OED.
seriously, have you tried getting online access to OED through a library where you have borrowing privileges?
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Jeeh, now why didn't I think of that all by myself, I wonder.
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While we're making some up: cameleopardous = giraffe-like, e.g. Olive Oyl's cameleopardous neck.
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Disastrous? Calamitous? Both fairly common, I think. But neither of them end in -dous is the onliest thing. Nice word. I like that word.
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there is nothing stupendous (or stupidous) about these; they just happen to be words ending in 'd' which have had the suffix -ous affixed to them. "That's not a cat licence, it's a dog licence with the the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in - in crayon" - Monty Python
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