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Brobdingnag

American  
[brob-ding-nag] / ˈbrɒb dɪŋˌnæg /

noun

  1. the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.


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Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2020

Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag.

From Nature Sep. 26, 2017

In the giants' realm of Brobdingnag, Gulliver even becomes a kind of human microscope.

From Nature Sep. 26, 2017

Later he again blunders off course and winds up in Brobdingnag, land of the giants, where he is reduced to the status of a performing monkey at the court. 

From Slate Jun. 21, 2013

I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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