The Rice University Neologisms Database

Extremely deserving of ridicule; extremely ridiculous This word has been around for a while, it seems. As such, its really hard to understand where it comes from. One thing is for certain- its roots lie in the word ridiculous. Once we get past that, however, it is extremely difficult to understand why this word came about. I have my suspicions that it was in a rap song, or a hip-hop song, as it seems to fit the general patterns of those words. Maybe after coming out of the song, it became popular as a replacement to ridiculous, because it is more interesting to say that ridiculous is. People who use redunkulous seem to also use ridiculous, so they save redunkulous for situations or events that are to the extreme. Maybe the sounds in redunkulous (which have far more gutteral roots) connotate intesity. Perhaps that is why this word reached the popularity amongst young adults that it currently enjoys. It is probably not a good reason for its coining, I have a feeling that was done spur of the moment during a song (maybe they needed something to share sounds like crunk).