brobdingnagian

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Rolling the item into our home and watching the Sac expand like some brobdingnagian mushroom was a wonder.

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  1. Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

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  1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
  2. huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag

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  • Unfortunately, the only real market remaining for its "products" -- brobdingnagian frozen accelerator magnets -- is the European CERN accelerator. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 01 - July 1994
  • Apple is working on new Macs all the time; Intel is coming up with faster processors; memory manufacturers are creating faster RAM; hard drives are swelling to brobdingnagian capacities overnight. —  Macworld
  • This brobdingnagian land leviathan is so huge that it features a control deck with railings, reached by a flight of stairs - effectively a bridge like that of a ship - rather than any normal driver's compartment. —  The Register
  • Rolling the item into our home and watching the Sac expand like some brobdingnagian mushroom was a wonder. —  Punknews.org
  • Here is a novel so brobdingnagian that a single reader can scarcely read his way through it .... —  A Book of Prefaces
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