Friday, January 19, 2007

brobdingnagian

brobdingnagian (n)

1. A creature from Brobdingnag (a country in Jonathan Swift's novel entitled Gulliver's Travels).
2. (figuratively) A giant.

brobdingnagian (adj)

1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.

2. Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.

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