Giant-like, like a giant, ruthless, rude: “that same cowardly g. ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house,” Mids. III, 1, 197. “what is the cause that thy rebellion looks so g.?” Hml. IV, 5, 121 (with allusion to the ancient Gigantomachy).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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