chungus

Meanings

1. Any tangible object or thing, especially one that is short and thick.
2. A nonsense word or placeholder, often used incongruously in self-deprecating or doomer-like speech.
3. Something that is correct, agreeable to consensus, or without fault, as part of a straw man.

Etymology

From chunk. Compare humongous (“extremely large”, adjective) or dingus (“any object or thing; a foolish person”, noun), and chonk. James Stephanie Sterling was credited with coining the term “chungus” in 2012, though it did not see wide usage until around 2018 with the rise of the “Big Chungus” meme. Big Chungus itself is derived from the Looney Tunes episode Wabbit Twouble.