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ˈsplacknuck
Also splacnunc.
[Invented by Swift.]
An imaginary animal of Brobdingnag; a strange animal or person.
1726Swift Gulliver ii. ii, That my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacknuck. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1811) I. 68 Philadelphians gave the preference to racoon and splacnuncs. 1820Examiner 626/1 In the grip of the farmer at Botley we accordingly leave this reverend splacknuck. 1842Tennyson in H. Tennyson Mem. (1897) I. vii. 180 Your modern ladies shriek at a pipe as if they saw a ‘splacknuck’. |