Word of the Day | Brobdingnagian
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Usage: President Obama’s decision to send 34,000 more troops into Afghanistan will prove to be a Brobdingnagian calamity.
Brobdingnagian brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn , adjective; 1. Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous. Origin: Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
Word of the Day | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | Dictionary.com.
