http://wordie.org/words/struldbrug Comments for the word 'Struldbrug' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/struldbrug#comments In Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_, given as the native appellation of ‘the immortals’ in the kingdom of Luggnagg, who were incapable of dying, but after the age of eighty continued to exist in a state of miserable decrepitude, regarded as legally dead, and receiving a small pittance from the state. Hence in allusive uses. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:18:41 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/struldbrug#comments