• Brobdingnag

    Full definition of Brobdingnag

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    Brobdingnag

    (plural Brobdingnags)
    1. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift .
      • Swift Gulliver|II|IV...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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