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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian   \ brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn \ ,  an adjective meaning "of huge size; gigantic; tremendous."

"Brobdingnagian  entered English in the mid-1700s by way of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels , in which Brobdingnag is the name of a region where everything is of enormous size."

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