Brobdingnagian

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The Word of the Day for June 17 is: 

Brobdingnagian   \brob-ding-NAG-ee-un\   adjective
     : marked by tremendous size

Example sentence:
     Our little dog was frightened by the Brobdingnagian proportions of the 
statues in the park.

Did you know?
     In Jonathan Swift's novel _Gulliver's Travels_, Brobdingnag is the name of 
a land that is populated by a race of human giants "as tall as an ordinary 
spire steeple." In Gulliver's first close-up encounter with the giants, he is 
attempting to get past a stile of which every step is six feet high, when a 
group of field-workers approach with strides ten yards long and reaping hooks 
as large as six scythes. Their voices he at first mistakes for thunder. Swift's 
book fired the imagination of the public and within two years of the 1726 
publication of the story, people had begun using "Brobdingnagian" to refer to 
anything of unusually large size. (Swift himself had used "Brobdingnagian" as a 
noun to refer to the inhabitants of Brobdingnag.)