Literary notes about brobdingnagian (AI summary)
In literature, Brobdingnagian functions as a vivid marker of overwhelming size and intensity, applied both to physical objects and to more abstract qualities. Authors deploy the term to describe everything from massive parcels and steamboats ([1], [2]) to monstrous natural forms like tremendous pumpkins and towering trees ([3], [4]), while also imbuing actions and emotions with an epic, hyperbolic quality—as when a character emits a huge sigh of relief ([5]) or when an act is painted as monstrously brutal ([6]). The versatility of Brobdingnagian allows writers to blur the line between literal enormity and figurative exaggeration, making the word a powerful tool for evoking a sense of grandeur or satirical excess ([7], [8], [9]).
- The sedate face of the respectable Williams looked over the last Brobdingnagian parcel transferred to his embrace.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan - —We left New York on Thursday afternoon, and embarked in a Brobdingnagian steamboat, which it would not be very easy to describe.
— from First Impressions of the New WorldOn Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Isabella Strange Trotter - But when I turned, there it was, intact, a super-Brobdingnagian pumpkin, seen at close view, and still ripe, still ready for plucking.
— from High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall - From a point near the top a gigantic baobab tree towered up against the skyline like a Brobdingnagian cabbage.
— from Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet - He heaved a Brobdingnagian sigh of relief when they finished.
— from The Plastic Age by Percy Marks - What was it?—Ha, yes— A Brobdingnagian act —" "— of brachycephalic brutality , Sir.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 by Various - It was equivalent to being placed on the end of a giant, pliable whip while a Gargantuan Brobdingnagian driver tried to flick you off.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner by John Henry Goldfrap - To announce it is to invite gasps or Brobdingnagian laughter.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - gigantic , a. enormous , colossal , Herculean, vast , Cyclopean, prodigious, Titanic, Gargantuan, Brobdingnagian.
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming
