Sunday, December 9, 2007

Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian • Pronunciation: brahb-ding-næg-i-yên (Adjective)
1. Relating to the imaginary land of giants, Brobdingnag, described in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) or the people living there. 2. Humongous, enormous, gigantic, the antonym of Lilliputian.

Brobdingnagian - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary

That's fun to say!

1 comment:

Tammy said...

That is funny :) Why we have some of the words we do will always baffle me!