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GARGANTUA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name
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Instance hypernyms:
imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)
Derivation:
gargantuan (of great mass; huge and bulky)