Both Uses of
prodigious
in
Great Expectations
- Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,—an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.†
p. 21.1prodigiously = enormously; or with a magnitude or degree that is far beyond what is usual
- Thus advised, Mrs. Pocket took it the other way, and got its head upon the table; which was announced to all present by a prodigious concussion.†
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Definition:
enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree