gargantuan 1596, from Gargantua, large-mouthed giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Sp./Port. garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle ... The Online Etymology Dictionary...
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ETYMOLOGY 101; The origin of: gargantuan ... The magnificent scale of everything in Rabelais’ works (Gargantua rode a giant mare, whose tail switched so violently that it felled the entire forest of Orléans) gave rise to the adjective gargantuan, in use since Shakespeare’s time.
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Pertaining to or characteristic of Gargantua (see etymology); hence, great beyond credibility; enormous; prodigious; Brobdingnagian. It sounded like a Gargantuan order for a dram. The Standard (London).
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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search ... (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite. ... Etymology: From Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua.
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