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Pantagruel
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Definition:Gargantua's son in Rabalais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
painting: By Gustave Doré https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15063655
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Uses:
Archer: [...] because then I have to come back here to Frankenstein's bullshit.
Charlotte Vandertunt: Common misconseption; Frankenstein was the doctor - and not the monster. I would have gone with Pantagruel.
Adam Reed. Archer, season 8, Dreamland: Waxing Gibbous (2017)
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And because in that very day Pantagruel was born, his father gave him that name; for Panta in Greek is as much to say as all, and Gruel in the Hagarene language doth signify thirsty, inferring hereby that at his birth the whole world was a-dry and thirsty, as likewise foreseeing that he would be some day supreme lord and sovereign of the thirsty Ethrappels, which was shown to him at that very same hour by a more evident sign.
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Erasmus and Rabelais,—Nature used up all her arrows for their quivers, and had to wait a hundred years and more before she could find shafts enough for the outfit of Voltaire, leaner and keener than Erasmus, and almost as free in his language as the audacious creator of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. One Hundred Days in Europe (1886)
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