mondo 1
/mon doh"/ , n. , pl. mondos . Zen.
a question to a student for which an immediate answer is demanded, the spontaneity of which is often illuminating. Cf. koan .
[ 1925-30; mondo, earlier mondau wèn inquire + dá reply ]
mondo 2
Slang.
adv.
1. very; extremely: mondo cool.
adj.
2. large; big: a mondo history paper.
[ mondo world, extracted fr. the film Mondo Cane (1961) and reinterpreted as an adv. in It or pseudo-It phrases such as mondo bizarro very bizarre, lit., bizarre world ]