Who has heard of this word before?! and how do you even say it? Anyway, here it is courtesy of dictionary.com.
Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective: Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
The venture capital business has a size problem. A monstrous, staggering, stupefying one. Brobdingnagian even.
–Russ Mitchell, "Too Much Ventured Nothing Gained", Fortune, November 11, 2002
Any savvy dealer . . . will try to talk you up to one of the latest behemoths, which have bloated to such Brobdingnagian dimensions as to have entered the realm of the absurd.
–Jack Hitt, "The Hidden Life of SUVs", Mother Jones, July/August 1999
This is for you ML, "That's what she said!"
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Not to be a showoff...but it comes from the term used for the giants Gulliver encounters in Gulliver's Travels. =)
I love that you have a word of the day though!
I missed out... haven't read Gulliver's Travels. I guess that explains why I haven't heard the word before.
Yes, it's a staple in the diet of an English Literature major. =)
Great word though. I need to start posting more WOTWIFLI. It's been too long since I posted one!
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