Brobdingnagian
[brob-ding-nag-ee-uh n]
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adjective
of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
noun
an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
a being of tremendous size; giant.
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Origin of Brobdingnagian
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Brobdingnagian
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Word Origin for Brobdingnagian
C18: from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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brobdingnagian
"huge, immense, gigantic," 1728, from Brobdingnag + -ian.
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