[ ˌbrɒbdɪŋ'nagɪən ]
■ adjective very large; gigantic.
■ noun a giant.
Origin
C18: from Brobdingnag , a land in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) where everything is of huge size.
[ ˌbrɒbdɪŋ'nagɪən ]
■ adjective very large; gigantic.
■ noun a giant.
Origin
C18: from Brobdingnag , a land in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) where everything is of huge size.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004