|bənyə|nesk adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: John Bunyan died 1688 English preacher and writer + English -esque
1. : resembling or suggesting the allegorical writings of John Bunyan (as Pilgrim's Progress )
Bunyanesque names like Sir Adroit and Cunning and The Dragon Evasive
2.
[Paul Bunyan, legendary giant lumberjack associated with Canada and the northern and northwestern United States]
: of or befitting the tales of Paul Bunyan
such Bunyanesque characters as Babe the Blue Ox and Big Joe the Cook
especially : of fantastically large size
if all of a year's consumption were brewed in a Bunyanesque retort and decanted into the Niagara river — Time