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Brobdingnagian Pronunciation
Brobdingnagian is pronounced brawb-ding-NA-gee-uhn, IPA /ˌbrɔbdɪgˈnægiən/.
brawb-ding-NA-gee-uhn
US /ˌbrɔbdɪgˈnægiən/
Syllables: brawb · ding · NA · gee · uhn (5 syllables, stress on syllable 3)
adjective: Enormous, from the land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.
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Brobdingnagian in a Sentence
- The hall opened onto a brobdingnagian staircase.
- They built the thing on a brobdingnagian scale.
- A brobdingnagian appetite emptied the table.
Common Mispronunciations of Brobdingnagian
Not brawb-dig-NA-gee-uhn
Ring the ng in the middle, because the dingn spelling carries a nasal that is easy to lose.
Not brob-DING-nay-gee-uhn
Save the peak for NA, the third syllable, and keep ding unstressed.
Tip: Five beats and one peak. Swift coined the word for his giants, and lilliputian is its opposite.
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