Hugh vs Giant - What's the difference?
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* 1894 W. H. Miller, J. Mcaulauy, W. Stevens, The Leisure Hour , Richard Jones (1894), page 651:
* 1996 (Ian Rankin), Let It Bleed , Thorndike Press (2000), ISBN 0786226773, page 68:
* 2011 Hughie Boy Levoy, Chicago Kid , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1462853404, page 151:
A mythical human of very great size.
(lb) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
A very tall person.
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
(lb) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
(lb) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
A very large organisation.
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
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Very large.
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As a proper noun Hugh
is a given name derived from Germanic.As a noun giant is
a mythical human of very great size.As an adjective giant is
very large.hugh
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself.
- Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain, / Saint Hugh be our good speed. / Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, / Nor helps good hearts in need.
- "You are engaged to Mr. Harden, I suppose?" "Yes, Mr. Harden. I call him Hugh', his second name. I like the name of '''Hugh'''. The exquisite long vowel pleases me?'''''Hugh! Hugh! ".
- Hugh' McAnally was universally known as "Wee Shug". He didn't know why people called ' Hugh always ended up nicknamed Shug.
- What I had noticed all of my young life, from as early as five years old, was that very few people outside my family knew how to pronounce my name?or spell it. "Hue, Hug, Huge, Huh, Hugo. Everything but my name, HUGH'!" - - - I grew up thinking that I was the only ' Hugh in the world, and all my life I'll be meeting people who will have trouble pronouncing my name.
Usage notes
* Has been used as a translation of Aodh, and of other Gaelic names, in Scotland and Ireland. * Popular given name in medieval England, partly due to the fame of . In quiet use today, more common in the U.K. and Ireland than in the U.S.A.See also
* Shuggiant
English
Alternative forms
* giaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
Synonyms
See also:Adjective
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