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Brobdingnag
[ brob-ding-nag ]
noun
- the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.
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Give Swift his world of Lilliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable.
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One of his own Brobdingnag raspberry-plants, swung by the angry arm of Oakly, struck off the head of his precious tulip!
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To enter the room where these admirable instruments are kept, suggests the idea of going into a Brobdingnag watch-factory.
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His voyage to Lilliput, his stay with the little people, and his adventures later among the giants of Brobdingnag, are classic.
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But being nice to me was not enough; it sort of made me feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag.
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