–adjective
1. of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
–noun
2. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
3. a being of tremendous size; giant.
Origin:
Brobdingnag + -ian
[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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