He was a most pantagruelian sort of a fellow…

PantagrulianVerandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week from AUM PR comes from a character created by Francois Rabelais in his 1534 satirical novel – Gargantua and Pantagruel. Pantagruel was a gigantic prince noted for his ironic buffoonery, and the word has come to mean huge, insatiable or voracious.  As an adjective it takes more and most – as in more pantagruelian and most pantagruelian.

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