gargantuan

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. Huge; immense; tremendous.
  2. (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

Frekwensie

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/
Etimologie (Engels)

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

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