Brobdingnag

== English == === Proper noun === Brobdingnag A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.151: 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 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 ==== Lilliput ==== Derived terms ==== Brobdingnagian