splacknuckn.
An imaginary animal of Brobdingnag; a strange animal or person.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures
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splacknuck1726
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > specific fictional animal
splacknuck1726
tove1855
boojum1876
snark1879
pushmi-pullyu1922
warg1937
shmoo1948
Womble1968
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. ii. 3 That my Master had found a strange Animal in the Field about the bigness of a Splacknuck.
1807 Salmagundi 24 Feb. 65 Philadelphians gave the preference to racoon, and splacnuncs gave them a long dissertation on the phlegmatic nature of a goose's gizzard.
1820 Examiner 626/1 In the grip of the farmer at Botley we accordingly leave this reverend splacknuck.
1842 Tennyson in H. Tennyson Mem. (1897) I. vii. 180 Your modern ladies shriek at a pipe as if they saw a ‘splacknuck’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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