Brobdingnagian

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Brobdingnagian adjective, /brog-ding-NAG-ee-uhn/
Means Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
Etymology The word is appropriated from Brogdingnag, the fictional country of giants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Example I had always been ashamed of my brobdingnagian hands which felt so awkwardly disproportionate to the rest of my body; that is, until the day I finally met the bathykolpian woman of my dreams.

Comments

[white-guilt.livejournal.com]

I love this adjective!
Thanks.

thank you

[nursemyra.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Thanks for the link back.... I have several posts featuring uncommon words you might be interested in though unfortunately I didn't think to tag them as such.

Here's one of them:

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/xenotransplantation/

(bathykolpian posts often occur on Corset Fridays)

Re: thank you

[fidgetspin.livejournal.com]

It was a perfect post to explain the word, so thank you. Thanks as well for the heads up on other possible inspirations on your blog!