Today's Word "Brobdingnagian"
Of extraordinary size
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Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\ (adjective) - Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
"Their gravestones were simple, like granite Brobdingnagian shoe boxes, and stood in a discrete row under the branches of a purple-leaf beech tree." -- Lisa Genova, 'Still Alice'
Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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