Brobdingnagian - What does it mean?
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Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
(figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
* 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
* 1907 , , "Glamour" in His Own People ,
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 52:
brobdingnagian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
- The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
- Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.