What is asplacnuck as in-

"The neighbours talk about the great discovery by the farmer of a strange animal, as big as a splacnuck, that has learnt to talk in their language."

splacknuck is an animal in Brobdingnag which is finely shaped and is 6 feet long. This animal is very small as compared to standard sizes of animals found in Brobdingnag (Remember the description of the cat, dog and two rats of mastiff sizes), it almost a size of an Brobdingnagian insect. 6 feet is an average height of a human male, thus this comparison with splacknuck reasserts the theme of the second book, where Swift has ridiculed the human vanity by comparing the humans to animals.

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