Brobdingnag

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Noun
  1. 1
    a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

    "[…] if this Treatiſe ſhould happen to be tranſlated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that Kingdom) and tranſmitted thither, the King and his People would have reaſon to complain that I had done them an Injury by a falſe and diminutive Repreſentation."

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"[…] if this Treatiſe ſhould happen to be tranſlated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that Kingdom) and tranſmitted thither, the King and his People would have reaſon to complain that I had done them an Injury by a falſe and diminutive Repreſentation."

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