Gargantua

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

leviathan samson cyclops goliath centaur titan colossus hercules Arnold Paul Bunyan behemoth Beowulf Rabelais

Antonyms

runt

Phrases with the word

the huge chronicles of gargantua and pantagruel the life of gargantua and pantagruel the mammoth chronicles of gargantua and pantagruel the mighty saga of gargantua and pantagruel the tremendous adventures of gargantua and pantagruel the vast tales of gargantua and pantagruel

Examples

There was left only the monk to provide for, whom Gargantua would have made Abbot of Seville, but he refused it. François Rabelais

French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered. Source: Internet

In his first book (ch. 52-57), Rabelais writes of this Abbey of Thélème, built by the giant Gargantua. Source: Internet

Gargantua dismisses the use of paper as ineffective, rhyming that: "Who his foul tail with paper wipes, Shall at his ballocks leave some chips." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Garganega garganey Gargano gargantua and his son pantagruel gargantua and pantagruel series gargantuan