BROBDINGNAGIAN


Meaning of BROBDINGNAGIAN in English

[ ˌbrɒbdɪŋ'nagɪən ]

■ adjective very large; gigantic.

■ noun a giant.

Origin

C18: from Brobdingnag , a land in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) where everything is of huge size.

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