Brobdingnag

English

Proper noun

Brobdingnag

  1. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], chapter IV, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
      […] if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury […]

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