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brobdingnagian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of brobdingnagian
brobdingnagian
Joining forces with the French was probably the only hope for survival for AMC, a lilliputian in a brobdingnagian land.
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By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions.
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White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne.
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Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in.
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That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles.
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Gregory Peck, indomitable as ever, was the leader of a crack World War II commando unit dispatched to destroy a brobdingnagian Nazi artillery unit.
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In his 1974 best-seller Supership, Mostert warned that these brobdingnagian tankers were accidents looking for places where they could happen.
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Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta.
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- Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
- Huge: 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 ...
- Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land.
- A creature from Brobdingnag; A giant; Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag; Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing
