brobdingnagian
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In the oil game everything from supertankers as long as three football fields to offshore drilling rigs as tall as the Empire State Building is brobdingnagian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standard engines are no bigger than 425 cu. in., in lieu of the brobdingnagian 500 cu. in. of 1976.
From Time Magazine Archive
Possibly recalling her hungry working-girl roles of years past, Doris is a pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement.
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Beyond the plenitude of sparkling quarterbacks, the scouts are most elated over the number of brutal, brobdingnagian defensive linemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the hurrying crowds, swirling and sifting through the brobdingnagian camp of iron and steel, one saw the camp-followers and the pagan women—there would be work to-day and dancing to-night.
From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth
