WOTD: Brobdingnagian

Adjective

Brobdingnagian (comparative more Brobdingnagian, superlative most Brobdingnagian)

1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.

1. (figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.

1. Antonyms: lilliputian

Noun

Brobdingnagian (plural Brobdingnagians)

1. A creature from Brobdingnag.

1. (figuratively) A giant.

Origin

Brobdingnagian entered English in the mid-1700s by way of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, in which Brobdingnag is the name of a region where everything is of enormous size.

Quotes

• I wish she'd call me back now, because I'd like to share with her the last of my dreams, in which the new College of Technical Careers building has turned out to be yet another replica of my own house, like Julie's, this one on a Brobdingnagian scale.
       -- Richard Russo \\ Straight Man
• Back in 2007, when the New York–based web advertising giant DoubleClick sold itself to Google for a Brobdingnagian $3.1 billion, the sale was a big deal not only because it made millions for DoubleClick's backers and provided Google with the cornerstone of its ad-revenue juggernaut.
       -- Kevin Roose \\ Tumblr's Sale is a Billion-Dollar Trophy for the New York Tech Scene