Brewer's: Luggnagg

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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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