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Luggnagg

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An island mentioned in Gulliver’s Travels, where people live for ever. Swift shows the evil of such a destiny, unless accompanied with eternal youth. (See Struldbrugs.)

 

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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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Lud’s Bulwark
Lud’s Town
Ludgate
Luddites
Ludlum
Luez
Luff
Lufra
Luggie
Luggnagg
Luke (St.)
Luke’s Iron Crown
Lullian Method
Lumber (from Lombard)
Lumine Sicco (In)
Lump
Lumpkin (Tony)
Lun
Luna
Lunar Month