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Brobdingnag
[brob-ding-nag]
noun
the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.
Example Sentences
Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.
And, like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Brobdingnag, he is interrogated about his culture by his hosts so intensively that he begins to doubt his own human identity.
Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag.
He's under the illusion that he's 10 times richer than he is, believes President Obama was born in Brobdingnag to the Queen of Sheba and thinks childhood vaccination caused the movie Rain Man.
I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least.
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