Brobdingnag
/ˈbrɒbdɪŋnæɡ/
/ˈbrɑːbdɪŋnæɡ/
- an imaginary country visited by Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The people there are much bigger than Gulliver, and they are disgusted by his descriptions of life in Europe.
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