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Brob⋅ding⋅nag⋅i⋅an

  [brob-ding-nag-ee-uhn]
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–adjective
1. of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
–noun
2. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
3. a being of tremendous size; giant.
Origin:
Brobdingnag + -ian
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Brob·ding·nag·i·an   (brŏb'dĭng-nāg'ē-ən)   
adj.  Immense; enormous.

[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]
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Brobdingnagian

Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels."] Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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