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Brobdingnagian [ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnægɪən] adj gigantic; huge; immense [from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)] Brobdingnagian a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian. See also: Size
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These brutes are huge mastodonian animals that tower to an immense height even beside the giant green men and their giant thoats; but when compared to the relatively small red man and his breed of thoats they assume Brobdingnagian proportions that are truly appalling. |
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