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Glumdalʹclitch

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A girl, nine years old, and only forty feet high, who had charge of Gulliver in Brobdingnag. (Swift: Gulliver’s Travels.)

“Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care,

She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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