giantess

noun

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

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Stewart herself is certainly no stranger to starring in movies that are a little off the wall; Love Lies Bleeding, famously, ended with (spoiler alert) what basically amounted to a giantess fantasy sequence. James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025 Moroney is standing on the shoulders of other giantesses, too, but combining some of their different qualities in an interesting way — as girly as Shania Twain on the surface level but at least somewhere on the same toughness scale that is topped by Miranda Lambert, too. Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025 In the 1958 Hollywood movie, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a giantess played by Allison Hayes squashed men like bugs until the town sheriff killed her. Jane Smiley june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 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 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 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 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

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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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 14 Oct. 2025.

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