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Brob⋅ding⋅nag

  [brob-ding-nag]
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–noun
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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