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noun
Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Struldbrug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
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.
