mimsy

created by Elflaran

(idea) by Elflaran (?) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:57:45

"Well, the "mimsy' is "flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you)."

By Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

(idea) by jessicapierce (1.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 27 1999 at 15:30:46

MIMSY (whence MIMSERABLE and MISERABLE.) "Unhappy."

Carroll's definition, printed in 1855, cited by The Annotated Alice

Portmanteau	Jabberwocky	uespeling	frath
Mimsy Were the Borogoves	The Annotated Alice	borogove	George Washington's 1796 State of the Union Address
Currency of the World	blockquote	UL	tautline hitch
Bodie, California	Greek words for love	Mîm	Malmsey
Teletubbies	Misery	frindle	MIMD
Piers Anthony	wabe	mome	gimble

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