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Brobdingnag

noun
1.
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous.



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"Brobdingnag" Quotes from Famous Books



... platform, to which it was necessary to climb by cross-beams arranged at wide distances. My companion ascended to this awkward elevation, without hesitating; but I came to an "awful pause" before it. Fettered as I was by my Brobdingnag jacket and trousers, I felt a humiliating consciousness that any extraordinary gymnastic exertion was altogether ...
— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins
... to me. I got the best of everything. But being nice to me was not enough; it sort of made me feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag. They were so over-strong that they did not know their own strength. This was especially true of the youngsters of Mekstrom parents. I tried to re-diaper a baby one night and got my ring finger gummed for my efforts. It was like wrestling Bad Cyril ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith


Words linked to "Brobdingnag" :   fictitious place, Brobdingnagian, mythical place, imaginary place


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