Brobdingnag

English thumb|Gulliver in Brobdingnag Proper noun A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. II 225 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. 2003, Roy_Porter Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.151: Gulliver's_Travels The satire takes a new twist when, on his second voyage, Gulliver visits Brobdingnag, whose inhabitants tower above him. The boot is now on the other foot, and it is Gulliver who is exposed as diminutive of stature and understanding alike. The Brobdingnagians furthermore excite Jonathan_Swift Swift's disgust at the flesh. Their very grossness exaggerates all the minute flaws and hideousness normally concealed from the eye by the limitations of human vision. Coordinate terms en Lilliput Derived terms en Brobdingnagian en Fictional locations Gulliver's Travels