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Brobdingnag


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

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Brobdingnag


(n) a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous
Source: beedictionary.com

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Brobdingnag


The country of gigantic giants, to whom Gulliver was a pigmy “not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid.”
Source: bartleby.com





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