Etymology

struldbrug

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Today it means: Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead. Full definition →

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The story

From Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

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