giantishadj.
/ˈdʒʌɪəntɪʃ/ Resembling a giant or his qualities.
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massya1382
stout1390
burlyc1400
corporalc1475
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poisy1538
big-made1566
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grossa1578
large-bodied1577
weighty1581
burly-boned1590
mastya1593
lumbering1593
giantisha1635
gigantic1651
mastiff1668
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lusty1777
bowerly1794
squelching1854
beef to the heel(s)1867
hefty1867
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse v. i. 87 in Poems (1638) Their stature neither Dwarfe nor Gyantish.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. ii. 211 The boon she asks..is a meer trifle; no more than slaying a giantish sort of a fellow.
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adj.a1635- unreputed
- unrequest
- unrequested
- unrequired
- unrequisite
- unrequitable
- unrequital
- unrequited
- unrequitedly
- unrequitedness
- unrequitement
- unrequiter
- unrescinded
- unrescued
- unresearched
- unresectable
- unresemblable
- unresemblant
- unresemble
- unresembling
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- unresented
- unresentful
- unresentfully
- unresentfulness