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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

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

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag.

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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