Struldbrug

Meaning

Noun

• Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.

Origin

• 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 Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.