Brobdingnag

[ brob-ding-nag ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.

From Los Angeles Times

And, like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Brobdingnag, he is interrogated about his culture by his hosts so intensively that he begins to doubt his own human identity.

From Nature

Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag.

From Nature

He's under the illusion that he's 10 times richer than he is, believes President Obama was born in Brobdingnag to the Queen of Sheba and thinks childhood vaccination caused the movie Rain Man.

From BBC

I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least.

From Literature