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Brobdingnag

[brob-ding-nag]
noun
  1. the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.
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Examples from the Web for brobdingnag

Historical Examples

  • And he pointed to one that might have been used in Brobdingnag.

    Dead Man's Land

    George Manville Fenn

  • At all events a baby is, and must be, well used to living in Brobdingnag.

    The Seven Ages of Man

    Ralph Bergengren

  • He was going to have asked for some of the Brobdingnag raspberry-plants.

    The Parent's Assistant

    Maria Edgeworth

  • The whole man seemed but a single hand—a Brobdingnag hand affixed to the body of a Liliputian.

  • In Brobdingnag Swift is generally said to be looking, as Scott expresses it, through the other end of the telescope.

    Swift

    Leslie Stephen

Word Origin and History for brobdingnag

Brobdingnag

(not *brobdignag), 1727, Swift's name in "Gulliver's Travels" for imaginary country where everything was on a gigantic scale.

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