- of or like the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan or his feats; colossal, prodigious, etc.
- like or suggestive of the humorously exaggerated tall tales about him
Bunyanesque
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Bunyanesque
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- Of, relating to, or suggestive of the allegorical writings of John Bunyan.
- a. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the legend of Paul Bunyan.b. Of astonishingly large size: “Bunyanesque waves … crunched homes and municipal piers into little more than kindling wood” ( Time )
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