Brobdingnag

[ brob-ding-nag ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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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