gulliver

Speech parts

1. gulliver - Noun

2. Gulliver - Proper noun

Meaning

a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift

Examples

Hypotheses pinned me down, as Gulliver was pinned by the countless threads of the Lilliputians... John Fowles

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. Anthony Burgess

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. Mohsin Hamid

Gulliver loves the land and is obedient to a race that is not like his own. Source: Internet

Gulliver can speak with him, and though now disaffected from all humanity, he began to tolerate his company. Source: Internet

As with his other writings, the Travels was published under a pseudonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and later a sea captain. Source: Internet

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