grody to the max

King James thinks all this griping is grody to the max.

"Grody to the max," the groupie said, chewing her gum energetically.

This song, Frank Zappa's only Top 40 hit in the United States, popularized phrases such as "grody to the max".

GRODY TO THE MAX In a column about ickiness, I wrote that yuck "has resisted replacement by gross and its derivative grody."

Next to "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon".

The source word is George Orwell's newspeak, and it spawned everything from my Haigspeak (Al Haig's "Snakecheck that" and shades-of-gray nuancal) to the San Fernando Valley girls' Valspeak ("grody to the max").