mimsy
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪmzi/
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Etymology 1
Adjective
mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)
- (nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
- 1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:
- ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
- 1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark , London: Macmillan, Fit the Seventh. The Banker's Fate:
- Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones
Translations
flimsy and miserable
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Etymology 2
Noun
mimsy (plural mimsies)
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- 2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2008-10-08:
- It seems plastic surgery for men is catching up in the lunacy stakes with the world of female plastic surgery, a place where you can fly to LA and get the shape of your vagina changed: what constitutes an appealingly shaped mimsy is something else to be filed under "unanswered questions", next to the one about who wants a huge pair of balls.
See also
Jabberwocky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
