Gulliver

Gulliver
Gul·li·ver (gŭlʹə-vər) n.
An Englishman who travels to the imaginary lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels (1726).

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