giantess

noun

gi·​ant·​ess ˈjī-ən-təs How to pronounce giantess (audio)
: a female giant

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Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size. Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 The work has drawn protests as well as a lawsuit from leaders in the local art and design community, who see the giantess with her white dress blowing up above her waist as cheesy, sexist, or both. The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019 Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation. Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023 Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022 Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince. Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022 Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew. Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022 In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey. Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022 And despite being married to the Aesir Sigyn, Loki had three children with the giantess Angrboda. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of giantess was in the 14th century

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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/giantess. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.

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