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Feb. 3, 2015

Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\ adjective 1. of huge size; gigantic; tremendous. noun 1. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag. Quotes I wish she'd call back now, because I'd like to share with her the last of my dreams, in which the new College of Technical Careers building has turned out to be yet another replica of my own house, like Julie's, this one on a Brobdingnagian scale. -- Richard Russo, Straight Man, 1997 Origin Brobdingnagian entered English in the mid-1700s by way of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, in which Brobdingnag is the name of a region where everything is of enormous size.

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