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单词 bunyanesque
释义 bun·yan·esque
\|bənyə|nesk\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: John Bunyan died 1688 English preacher and writer + English -esque
1. : resembling or suggesting the allegorical writings of John Bunyan (as Pilgrim's Progress)
 < Bunyanesque names like Sir Adroit and Cunning and The Dragon Evasive >
2. [Paul Bunyan, legendary giant lumberjack associated with Canada and the northern and northwestern United States] : of or befitting the tales of Paul Bunyan
 < such Bunyanesque characters as Babe the Blue Ox and Big Joe the Cook >
especially : of fantastically large size
 < if all of a year's consumption were brewed in a Bunyanesque retort and decanted into the Niagara river — Time >
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