Brobdingnag

[ brob-ding-nag ]

/ ˈbrɒb dɪŋˌnæg /

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noun

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

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How to use Brobdingnag in a sentence

Give Swift his world of Lilliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable.
French Classics|William Cleaver Wilkinson
One of his own Brobdingnag raspberry-plants, swung by the angry arm of Oakly, struck off the head of his precious tulip!
The Parent's Assistant|Maria Edgeworth
To enter the room where these admirable instruments are kept, suggests the idea of going into a Brobdingnag watch-factory.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various
His voyage to Lilliput, his stay with the little people, and his adventures later among the giants of Brobdingnag, are classic.
A Mother's List of Books for Children|Gertrude Weld Arnold

But being nice to me was not enough; it sort of made me feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith