"My God, that thing was enormous. Monstruously, staggeringly, stupefingly big. Brobdingnagian even."
(comes from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in
"Gulliver's Travels")
Brobdingnagian (adjective) gigantic. (noun) a giant.
Vocabulary building exercise of the Advanced Study B ESL class of Teachers College Community English Program.
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