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The Brobdingnagian language is the language of the giant Brobdingnagians and their nation of Brobdingnag.

Glossary[]

  • Grildrig - a tiny man
  • Glumdalclitch - a little nurse
  • splacnuck - a six-foot long animal
  • grulrud - town crier
  • Lorbrulgrud - Pride of the Universe
  • Slardral - gentleman usher
  • relplum scalcath - freak of nature, unrestrained person
  • glomglung - a unit of measurement; three glomglungs correspond to 54 English miles (86.9 kilometres)

Names[]

  • Brobdingnag - (name of a country)
  • Flanflasnic - a city "within eighteen English miles of the seaside" (28.97 kilometres)
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