-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]
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brobdingnagian
Brobdingnagian was Word of the Day on July 1, 1999.
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brobdingnagian
adj 1: huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag [syn: Brobdingnagian] 2: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]