(Homonym: djinn, jinn).
Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
Alcoholic drink made by distilling a mash of corn, malt, or rye, with juniper flavoring. It was first produced in the Netherlands.

Country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

ETYM Latin, from Greek.
A person of exceptional importance and reputation; SYN. behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan.

ETYM Old Eng. giant, geant, geaunt, Old Fren. jaiant, geant, French géant, Latin gigas, from Greek giga, from the root of Eng. gender, genesis. Related to Gender, Gigantic.
1. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities; SYN. hulk, heavyweight, whale.
2. An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales.
3. An unusually large enterprise.
4. Any creature of exceptional size.
5. Someone who is abnormally large; SYN. goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus.
In many mythologies and folklore, a person of extraordinary size, often characterized as stupid and aggressive. In Greek mythology the giants grew from the spilled blood of Uranus and rebelled against the gods. During the Middle Ages, wicker effigies of giants were carried in midsummer processions in many parts of Europe and sometimes burned.

ETYM French, from Spanish ogro, from Latin Orcus the god of the infernal regions; also, the lower world, hell.
(Folklore) A giant who likes to eat human beings.

Mongol conqueror (died in 1227); Also called: Jenghis Khan, Jenghiz Khan.
(c. ?1167-1227) Mongol conqueror, ruler of all Mongol peoples from 1206. He began the conquest of N China 1213, overran the empire of the shah of Khiva 1219–25, and invaded N India, while his lieutenants advanced as far as the Crimea. When he died, his empire ranged from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea; it continued to expand after his death to extend from Hungary to Korea. Genghis Khan controlled probably a larger area than any other individual in history. He was not only a great military leader, but the creator of a stable political system.
The ruins of his capital Karakorum are SW of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia; his alleged remains are preserved at Ejin Horo, Inner Mongolia.

1. A person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind.
2. An extreme bellicose nationalist; SYN. jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter.

One characterized by jingoism.

GIANT SEQUOIA

Extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism; SYN. big tree, Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia Wellingtonia.
An evergreen tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) of the bald cypress family that grows on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and sometimes exceeds 270 feet (about 82 meters) in height — called also big tree, sequoia.

Toad of the genus Bufo marinus, family Bufonidae. Also known as the giant or marine toad, the cane toad is the largest in the world. It acquired its name after being introduced to Australia during the 1930s to eradicate the cane beetle, which had become a serious pest there. However, having few natural enemies, the cane toad itself has now become a pest in Australia.
The cane toad's defense system against its few natural enemies consists of highly-developed glands on each side of its neck which can squirt a poisonous fluid to a distance of around 1 m/3.3 ft.

A female giant.

ETYM Cf. French colossal, Latin colosseus. Related to Colossus.
So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; SYN. prodigious, stupendous.

Pants usually made of blue denim

Denim trousers, traditionally blue, originally cut from jean cloth (“jene fustian”), a heavy canvas made in Genoa, Italy. In the 1850s Levi Strauss (1830–1902), a Bavarian immigrant to the US, made sturdy trousers for goldminers in San Francisco out of jean material intended for wagon covers. Hence they became known as “Levis”. Later a French fabric, serge de Nîmes (corrupted to “denim”), was used. Denim jeans became fashionable casual wear in the 1950s in the US and have since been produced in a wide variety of styles by many designers