beautimous

Uncertain, probably a blend of beautiful +‎ gorgeous, or some other similar word.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

beautimous (comparative more beautimous, superlative most beautimous)

1. (Southern US, colloquial, sometimes humorous) Beautiful.
   • 1991, Robert R. McCammon, Gone South‎, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2011, →ISBN:

     “Oh, them stories. That she's a young beautimous girl and she don't never get old or die. That she can touch you and heal any sickness, or cancer ... or scar. Your friend tell you all that?”

   • 2003, Tom Carson, Gilligan's Wake, Picador, →ISBN, page 133:

     I was in the beautimous April of my years.

   • 2012, Norman H. Drummond, True Humility: Finding Power and Joy in This Biblically Mandated Virtue, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 21:

     I wonder about Adam. The pride that guided his decision to eat the fore-bitten fruit wasn't for the purpose of impressing his beautimous wife.

• When used in the Southern US, beautimous can be used as a legitimate synonym to beautiful. When used elsewhere (usually in North America) it is typically regarded as humorous.