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gargantuan

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gargantuan /gɑːˈgantjʊən/

▶adjective extremely large.

– origin C16: from Gargantua, a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name, + -an.

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