Brewer's: Margutte

(3 syl.). A giant ten feet high, who died of laughter on seeing a monkey pulling on his boots. (Pulci: Morgante Maggiore.) (See Death From Strange Causes.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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