Citations:awesome

Adjective: "(colloquial) very good"

 * 1986, Sean Hedman, letter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 6:
 * I'm speechless! I would say it was awesome, but that word went out quite a while ago. I've been looking for a comic with teenagers, mutants, ninjas, and turtles, and then you go and squish them into one and make an excellent comic.

Noun: "(slang) awesomeness"

 * 2010, Lucy A. Snyder, Shotgun Sorceress, Ballantine Books (2010), ISBN 9780345512109, page 94:
 * She was too pretty and rich and stuck-up for me to have wanted to have anything to do with her normally, but I was drunk enough to feel like everybody in the room was made of awesome.
 * 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619, page 6:
 * Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.
 * 2011, Bryan Healey, Bryan's Brain, Volume 1, ISBN 9781456398279, page 57:
 * For those of you that don't understand why this was a big deal, let me explain: Oregon Trail is pure awesome. Not was, mind you, but is. I would still happily play that game for hours, even in spite of gainful employment and the possession of a legally obtained car.
 * 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9780312643744, page 189:
 * Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
 * 2012, Kimberly Pauley, Cat Girl's Day Off, Tu Books, ISBN 9781600608834, unnumbered page:
 * “Is that not to die for? I mean, I love Easton, but that's pure awesome,” said Oscar. “It's totally going viral.”
 * 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury (2010), ISBN 9781599903422, page 150:
 * “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”