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1. 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
    
2. English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
   - John Bunyan

Sounds like: bunion

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

Encyclopedia: Bunyan, Ontario