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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--pantagruelian This week's theme: eponyms. pantagruelian (pan-tuh-groo-EL-ee-uhn) adjective 1. Enormous. 2. Displaying extravagant and coarse humor. [After Pantagruel, a giant king with an enormous appetite, the son of Gargantua, depicted in a series of novels by François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[Ilan Ros's] jowls are scarlet, and he's wearing a loose apron over his Pantagruelian belly. He begins by gobbling up three slices of cold meat in quick succession and then wipes his mouth on a paper napkin." Yasmina Khadra (pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul); The Attack (translated by John Cullen); Doubleday; 2006. X-Bonus The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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