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Brobdingnagian [ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnægɪən]
adj
gigantic; huge; immense
[from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
I ran across this word in this Article: HERE , ATandT Park a lesson in urban design, URBAN DESIGN. John King. Updated 10:20 p.m., Friday, October 5, 2012
And, from the Urban Dictionary:
Tags: huge, immense, vast
big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
Brobdingnagian,
Huge
Gargantuan
Massive
Colossal
Really fucking big
Originalted from the tale Gulliver's Travels, from the town Brobdingnag, where everything was really fucking big.
John Holmes is brobdingnagian.
Brobdingnagian is a brobdingnagian word.
Spelling brobdingnagian is a brobdingnagian task.
George W Bush is a brobdingnagian fuck up.
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Brobdingnagian
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/AT-T-Park-a-lesson-in-urban-design-3924277.php#ixzz28XpuxN1x
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