Brobdingnagian
Brobdingnagian
(brob-ding-NAG-ee-un)
Adjective:
-Pertaining to something or someone that is gigantic, huge, enormous etc.
-Marked by great size.
-Of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
Noun:
-An inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
-A being of tremendous size; a giant.
From Brobdingnag, the imaginary land of giants in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
First Known Use: 1728
Used in a sentence:
"The pills purchased from the quacksalver failed to live up to their promise to bestow upon the gentlemen a certain Brobdingnagian tumescence.”
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