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Brobdingnagian

[brob-ding-nag-ee-uh n]
adjective
  1. of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
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noun
  1. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
  2. a being of tremendous size; giant.
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Origin of Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnag + -ian
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Related Words

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Examples from the Web for brobdingnagian

Historical Examples

  • It is dirty, so much I will grant; and it is of a Brobdingnagian smell.

    Europe After 8:15

    H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

  • He had no difficulty in recognizing Susy's peculiarly Brobdingnagian school-girl hand.

    Clarence

    Bret Harte

  • The chirp is very loud, something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper.

  • The chirp is very loud: something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper.

  • The produce was Brobdingnagian, but worthless except to dig into the ground.

    The Dwelling House

    George Vivian Poore

British Dictionary definitions for brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian

adjective
  1. gigantic; huge; immense
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Word Origin

C18: from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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Word Origin and History for brobdingnagian

adj.

"huge, immense, gigantic," 1728, from Brobdingnag + -ian.

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