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[ brob-ding-nag ] / ˈbrɒb dɪŋˌnæg /
nounthe region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size. Words nearby BrobdingnagBroadview Heights, Broadway, broadwife, broad-winged hawk, brob, Brobdingnag, Brobdingnagian, Broca, brocade, Broca's aphasia, Broca's area Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for BrobdingnagIn Brobdingnag Swift is generally said to be looking, as Scott expresses it, through the other end of the telescope. Give Swift his world of Liliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable. Classic French Course in English|William Cleaver Wilkinson Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before your thought. Essay on Man|Alexander Pope Take him to Brobdingnag, and he is Grildrig, the little Manikin. The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4)|Thomas Babington Macaulay
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