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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
giantess
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ahead of him the road of cars flexed like a serpent, like the leg of a giantess.
▪ At its head soared a great fountain on which stood Columbia, a divine giantess, on the Barge of State.
▪ But he had only reached the elbow on which the giantess was supporting herself when a car drew up beside him.
▪ Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Giantess

Giantess \Gi"ant*ess\, n. A woman of extraordinary size.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
giantess

late 14c., from giant + -ess.

Wiktionary
giantess

n. A female giant.

WordNet
giantess

n. a female giant

Wikipedia
Giantess

A giantess is a female giant . The term may refer to either a mythical being resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength or a human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality (see gigantism).

Usage examples of "giantess".

The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.

There was so much of her, such incredibly long legs, such an extreme flow of line and volume, Beheim became entranced by the exaggerated perspectives available, gazing up at the equatorial swell of her belly toward the flattened mounds of her breasts with their dark oases of areola and turreted nipples, or down from her breasts toward the unruly pubic tuft between her thighs, in all reminding him by its smoothness of the sand sculpture of a sleeping giantess he had seen years before on a beach in Spain.

Molly Pardon herself was pictured, a fifty-year-old bleached-blond giantess rendered in thermoset plastic.

Unconscious of her passenger, the Giantess briskly mounted the stair, Reddy swinging round and round at each step and hoping heartily that the apron string would not come untied.

She imagined herself a bizarre corpuscle in the brachial artery of a giantess.

Cookie was shoved ten feet, the stun gun clattered on the floor, Swish Jack Jones had taken a quick backward spring, and the blonde giantess was planted enragedly in front of Phil and was thundering, “You know mucking well I can stand anything except when you start bullying people.

In the sideshow, Fitzfarris delightedly expatiated at length to the jossers on the fact of Princess Brunhilde's pregnancy, and—in a hushed and awful voice—invited them to speculate on what the offspring of a giantess and the horrible Kostchei might look like when it arrived.

The chairs were all designed for giantesses, with one exception, which resembled the high chair in which a child sits at table amongst its elders.

But one man, even though he had eaten the food of giantesses, could do nothing against the whole tribe of eight-foot females.

She submitted to being kissed and pawed about by any number of giantesses, many of whom seemed sorry for her and called her “a poor little thing” though none of them explained why.

She submitted to being kissed and pawed about by any number of giantesses, many of whom seemed sorry for her and called her "a poor little thing" though none of them explained why.

But speculation about them turning overnight into giantesses had become another Whittaker family joke.