Brobdingnag

[ brob-ding-nag ]

/ ˈbrɒb dɪŋˌnæg /

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

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Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

In Brobdingnag Swift is generally said to be looking, as Scott expresses it, through the other end of the telescope.
Swift|Leslie Stephen
Give Swift his world of Liliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable.
Classic French Course in English|William Cleaver Wilkinson
Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before your thought.
Essay on Man|Alexander Pope
Take him to Brobdingnag, and he is Grildrig, the little Manikin.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4)|Thomas Babington Macaulay

Some of the incidents are devised in this sense; but we may notice that in Brobdingnag he recurs to the Lilliput view.
Swift|Leslie Stephen