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Gargantua

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Noun

1. gargantua

a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name

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Gargantua

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noun

a gigantic king noted for his great capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)

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Gargantua

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noun

a giant king, noted for his size and prodigious feats and appetite, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a satire by Rabelais (1552)

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Gargantua

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n.

A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites.

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