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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