Meaning of Struldbrug | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“It might be thought a precedent, and he would not like⟳ it; he who is to inherit⟳ the place⟳ when that old Struldbrug, Gotham, is withered and cast⟳ away, when that old log⟳ is so barnacle-bored as to be worthless.”

“Antique memorial, exiled to Egypt's shame, Forlorn Struldbrug! why should we covet thee?”

“To me he is, like⟳ the greater number⟳ of classics in all ages and countries, a literary Struldbrug, rather than a true ambrosia-fed immortal.”

“Apparently immortal, an anthropoid and vital Struldbrug, the Earl, 201 years old, is a red-haired naked beast, his forehead jutting out like⟳ a shelf.”

“Popular science and even academic conferences discuss⟳ the possibilities of human beings living for hundreds of years or longer, but some of us remember⟳ the terrible fate of Jonathan Swift’s immortal struldbrugs on the island of Luggnagg, in Gulliver’s Travels, condemned to live⟳ on with diminished faculties into extreme old age.”

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