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Adjective- Of, or befitting the tales of a legendary giant lumberjack associated with Canada and the northern and northwestern United States.

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  • A man of Bunyanesque heft, Mr. Heppner comes across as the most vulnerable of big men, a slightly lost giant.
  • If Torre wasn't about to plan his every waking moment around Barry Bonds 'Bunyanesque cuts, he couldn't boycott the Angels and Giants, either.
  • Jobstian stories are generally Bunyanesque tall tales involving things like sealing tires with spoiled milk and extruding MA2 rims in the forest with your teeth.
  • Inasmuch as it is a symbol of outsized, Bunyanesque pretension, I admit I have become fascinated with it in the same way I can't seem to stop watching that Glenn Frey video.
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