英语词汇brobdingnagian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	brobdingnagian
词源	brobdingnagian. A big word that means “giant” or “huge,” and honors a race of fictional giants. The Brobdingnagians were the giants who inhabited the island of Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Men were “odious little vermin” to the Brobdingnagians. See lilliputian.
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