Struldbrug

English Alternative forms en struldbrug struldbrugg Struldbrugg Etymology From Struldbrugg Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, en Q41166 1 in Gulliver's Travels. Pronunciation en en Noun en literary Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead. en April 9, 1887 Chambers's Journal Richard Cable, the Lightshipman Sabine Baring-Gould 4 171 229 It might be thought a precedent, and he would not like it; he who is to inherit the place when that old Struldbrug, Gotham, is withered and cast away, when that old log is so barnacle-bored as to be worthless. en 1892 Donizetti Muller Links from Broken Chains 64 Antique memorial, exiled to Egypt's shame, Forlorn Struldbrug! why should we covet thee? en 1908 w:Samuel Butler Essays on Life, Art, and Science 32 To me he is, like the greater number of classics in all ages and countries, a literary Struldbrug, rather than a true ambrosia-fed immortal. en Theodore Spencer Aldous Huxley: The Latest Phase The Atlantic 1940-03 review of After Many a Summer https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1940/03/aldous-huxley-the-latest-phase/654670/ 2151-9463 Apparently immortal, an anthropoid and vital Struldbrug, the Earl, 201 years old, is a red-haired naked beast, his forehead jutting out like a shelf. https://web.archive.org/web/20251206062454/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1940/03/aldous-huxley-the-latest-phase/654670/ 6 December 2025 Derived terms en Struldbruggian en terms derived from fiction en Gulliver's Travels Immortality