enormous adj.: Bunyanesque
Clamping a bear hug on the appliance, the 6-ft. 3-in, 286-lb. Russian hoisted it off the floor. “It was a huge fridge,” he recalls, “and I carried it to my apartment up eight flights of stairs.” . . . This Bunyanesque figure is a husband and the father of three children, including a daughter who was born this year. (John Greenwald, The Summer Olympics: “The Ones to Beat: Alexander Kareli,” Time, 9/11/2000, p. 80.)
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