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Brobdingnag

[brob-ding-nag]

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the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.

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Brobdingnag

(not brobdignag), 1727, Swift's name in "Gulliver's Travels" for imaginary country where everything was on a gigantic scale.

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