Pronounced: FOY-bull, noun
Notes: I knew one of the meanings, but not the other one
Yesterday’s word
The word struldbrug is “someone very old and decrepit”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1700s
Background / Comments
Our word is another one that came from the book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. The Struldbrugs were a small group of immortal people living in Luggnagg — they grew old and decepit, but did not die.
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