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Today's Word "Brobdingnagian"

Of extraordinary size on

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Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\ (adjective) - Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.

"The cover was removed... revealing two gigantic pots... capable of holding 200 gallons each...a cooking apparatus as might have graced a Brobdingnagian kitchen." -- Frank T. Bullen, 'Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales'

 

Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.


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