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Noun: Bunyan  búnyun
  1. English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
    - John Bunyan
     
  2. A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
    "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
    - Paul Bunyan

Type of: author, character, faller, feller, fictional character, fictitious character, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, preacher, preacher man, sermoniser [Brit], sermonizer, writer

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