Gargantua

[ gahr-gan-choo-uh ]

noun

1. an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
2. (italics) a satirical novel (1534) by Rabelais.

Gargantua

/ ɡɑːˈɡæntjʊə /

noun

1. a gigantic king noted for his great capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)

Example Sentences

All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Washington Post

Rabelais wrote Gargantua here, in this city devoted to the most Pantagruelian of pleasures.

From The Daily Beast

After Honoré Daumier caricatured King Louis Philippe as Gargantua, he was sent to prison.

From The Daily Beast

Now the Gargantua of Dijon could once more lay hands on the broad lands of the fair Jacqueline.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

The monk then requested Gargantua to institute his religious order contrary to all others.

From Project Gutenberg

None did awake them, none did constrain them to eat, drink, nor do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it.

From Project Gutenberg

Gargantua can procure for you wealth, honors, and influence.

From Project Gutenberg