A man that means a mountain

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  • man ... mountain: Chinese [shān, symbol similar to the overturned E at FW 006.32]. It means "mountain" and is called "Chin", the common people's way of pronouncing Hin or Fin - Joyce, Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 2 March 1927
  • man-mountain: a translation of quinbus flestrin, the name the Lilliputians give Lemuel Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels
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