English Explanatory Dictionary

Struldbrug

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Struldbrug.

Word forms

Struldbrug Struldbrugs struldbrugg

Etymology

From Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

Derived words

Struldbruggian
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