brillig
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English
Etymology
Supposedly from bryl or broil.
Noun
brillig (uncountable)
- A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
- 1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
