mondo-morto

adj. very deceased. A word created in homage to Gualtiero Jacopetti, the recently deceased Italian director of Mondo Cane, a movie whose title inspired people who largely didn't speak Italian or Latin to create a variety of parodizing phrases, viz; Mondo Druggo, Mondo Tempo etc.

Want to help me bury my dog?

Is he dead?

Of course he's dead! In fact he's mondo-morto.

by gnostic1 August 21, 2011