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gargantua

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gar·gan·tu·a  (gär-gnch-)
n.
A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites.
[After the giant hero of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.]
Gargantua [gɑːˈgæntjʊə]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a gigantic king noted for his great capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
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Noun1.Gargantua - a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name


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of meat; and one must have the stomach of a Gargantua to demolish some dozens of them.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls--in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite--say, "such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world"; the other by the chapel where Louis XI.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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