Word of the DaySunday, March 30, 2003

Brobdingnagian

\brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\ , adjective:
1.
Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
Quotes:
The venture capital business has a size problem. A monstrous, staggering, stupefying one. Brobdingnagian even.
-- Russ Mitchell, "Too Much Ventured Nothing Gained", Fortune, November 11, 2002
Any savvy dealer . . . will try to talk you up to one of the latest behemoths, which have bloated to such Brobdingnagian dimensions as to have entered the realm of the absurd.
-- Jack Hitt, "The Hidden Life of SUVs", Mother Jones, July/August 1999
Origin:
Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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