Associations to the word «Brobdingnag»

Wiktionary

BROBDINGNAG, proper noun. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

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