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'brobdingnagian' has become rather less used (for 'colossal'), although Italy has been described as 'the brobdingnagian boot'.
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? Seth Shostak 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.
Seth Shostak: 3-D Movies: Wave of the Future or Fleeting Fad? 2010
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Stylish togs for people who complain that department stores cater only to the brobdingnagian.
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Even Spy Smasher whose every facial expression shows a brobdingnagian contempt for everyone around her is wonderfully designed.
Birds of Prey #104 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
vmarinelli commented on the word brobdingnagian
For the best usage of this word, ever: see the haiku of this twitterite: here. (The brilliant mommy blogger behind same: here.)
January 7, 2008
yarb commented on the word brobdingnagian
Ha ha. That is a great haiku: it's always good to get a five-syllable word in a haiku.
January 8, 2008
seanahan commented on the word brobdingnagian
Also part of the name of a great band, The Brobdingnagian Bards .
January 8, 2008
sionnach commented on the word brobdingnagian
A strong contender for the most hideously unpronounceable literary eponym ever (adjectival category) award.
December 24, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word brobdingnagian
JM cowers in the shade of all things brobdingnagian
February 19, 2009
tbtabby commented on the word brobdingnagian
The opposite of lilliputian.
May 15, 2009