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Brob`dingnag

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An imaginary country in "Gulliver's Travels," inhabited by giants, each as tall "as an ordinary spire-steeple"; properly a native of the country, in comparison with whom Gulliver was a pigmy "not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid."

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Brob`dingnag'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/brobdingnag.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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