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Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian /ˌbräbdiNGˈnaɡēən/ I. adjective gigantic. II. noun a giant. – origin early 18th cent.: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels) to a land where everything is of huge size, +-ian.