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Brobdingnagian adjective [ ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən ]

• huge; gigantic.
• "a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions"

Brobdingnagian noun

• a giant.
Origin: early 18th century: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels ) to a land where everything is of huge size, + -ian.


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