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Brobdingnagʹian

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Colossal; tall as a church steeple. (See above.)

“Limbs of Brobdingnagian proportions.”—The Star.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Britomartis
Briton (Like a)
Brittany
Broach
Broad as Long
Broad Arrow
Broad Bottom Ministry (1744)
Broadcloth
Broadside
Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagian
Brocken
Brocklehurst (The Rev. Robert)
Brogue
Brogues
Broken Feather (A)
Broken Music
Broken on the Wheel
Broker
Brontes
Bronzomarte