To what form of life does the king first compare Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels?

We never
get to find out exactly what a splacknuck is, but we can fairly sure that to be likened to one
is hardly a flattering comparison. It certainly sounds pretty repulsive. In Lilliput, where
Gulliver is so much bigger than everyone else, he's something of a curiosity, a one-man freak
show providing endless fascination and amusement for the natives. Now Gulliver gets to see what
it's like for animals back in his own world. He discovers how it feels to be stared at, pointed
at, attacked, never fully accepted as an equal. Literally speaking he looks down on the
Lilliputians but in figurative terms they look down on him,...