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† Garˈgantua Obs.
Also 6–7 Garagantua.
[The name of the large-mouthed voracious giant in Rabelais.]
A giant. Also attrib.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 8 Gyantes, or one-eyed Gargantuas. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 164 Now riseth vp this Gargantua, and will proue..that one bodie may be in another. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, I'll go near to fill that huge tumbrel-slop of yours with somewhat, an I have good luck: your Garagantua breech cannot carry it away so. [1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 238 You must borrow me Gargantuas mouth first.] 1651Randolph, etc. Hey for Honesty ii. v, Mine are all diminutives, Tom Thumbs; not one Colossus, not one Gargantua among them.
Hence garˈgantuan a., enormous, monstrous; also Comb., as gargantuan-bellied adj.; Garˈgantuism, ? an extravagant idea; Garˈgantuist, one who resembles Gargantua.
1593Harvey Pierce's Supererog. Wks. (Grosart) II. 224 Pore I..that am matched with such a Gargantuist, as can deuoure me quicke in a sallat. 1596Nashe Haue with you Wks. (Grosart) III. 49 This Gargantuan bag-pudding. 1619Purchas Microcosmus xxvii. 267 His Gargantuan bellyed-Doublet with huge huge sleeves. 1630Randolph Panegyr. to Shirley's Gratef. Serv. A iij, My ninth lasse affords No lycophronian buskins nor can straine Garagantuan lines to Gigantize thy veine. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) I. 146 While his wild home-grown Gargantuisms went on. 1893Curwen Hist. Booksellers 276 Bogue's small venture stood a poor chance against enterprise of this gargantuan scale. |