Brewer's: 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.

“Limbs of Brobdingnagian proportions.” —The Star.

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