BROBDINGNAG

Domain	Definition
Literature	Brobdingnag The country of gigantic giants, to whom Gulliver was a pigmy "not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid." "You high church steeple, you gawky stag, Your husband must come from Brobdingnag." Kane O'Hara: Midas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Brobdingnag

In Jonathan Swift's satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels, the land of Brobdingnag was occupied by very large people. Gulliver comes to the island once again through shipwreck, but in contrast with this experiences at Lilliput and Blefuscu he is treated well by the inhabitants.

The adjective Brobdingnagian has come to describe anything coarse and unwieldy because of its very large size. Compare Colossus, Juggernaut.

Commercial Usage: BROBDINGNAG

Domain	Title
Books	Gulliver's Travels: To Lilliput and Brobdingnag (Barron's Classic Novels) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: BROBDINGNAG

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	The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Anagrams: BROBDINGNAG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-g-g-i-n-n-o-r"
	-3 letters: aborning, adorning, boarding, branding, drabbing, gabbroid, grabbing, groaning.
	-4 letters: aboding, adoring, andiron, badging, banding, banging, barbing, barding, barging, bonding, bonging, brigand, dabbing, danging, darning, droning, gabbing, garbing, goading, gobbing, grading, inboard, nabbing, rabboni, ranging, ribband, robbing.
	-5 letters: bagnio, bandog, baning, baring, barong, boding, boning, boring, brogan, daring, dobbin, dragon, gabbro, gabion, ganoid, gibbon.
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