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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of borogove.
Examples
“July 10, 2009 at 3:08 pm all mimetic were the borogoves”
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“October 14, 2009 at 8:13 am ai jsut chekeded awn teh borogoves, adn tehy izz jsut azz mimsy az tehy kan bih …”
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“Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. fnxtr”
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“Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.”
Cornelius Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Scientific Theory - The Panda's Thumb
““Tout flivoreux vaquaient les borogoves”, and that”
“The albino borogoves drooped wanly and didn't sing a note.”
“` Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.”
“Like the author himself, Pam's fond of pilfering the imaginations of other writers "mimsy borogoves" is her appellation for her eyes, a phrase that comes courtesy of Lewis Carroll.”
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe.”
“October 14, 2009 at 8:11 am ai jus chekked awn teh borogoves, adn tehy’r jsut az mimsy az tehy kan bih …”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘borogoves’.
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words I heard while watching TV
Words I heard while watching TV. Could be anything.
necromonger, dude, the valley, the a.m., slick, nsaids, the matrix, the dude, bay area, neproxin, nsaids, renewal and 28 more...
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non-words
They show up in books I like, written by authors who either make them up, or find them used by writers I've never heard of. Maybe they're supposed to mean something; maybe they're specially designe...
whiskate, anthroparian, acathisia, imberbe, intrustian, stocket, thunge, brillig, slithy, wabe, gimble, mimsy and 7 more...
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just popped into my head
words that just popped into my head. Can be anything.
passion, borogoves, charlie chan, sequel, film franchise, just popped into ..., you, go, matrix, the, tetralogy, popsicle stand
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and ...
Words that, as I see it, have some fond connection to the Alice stories through their creation or particular use by Lewis Carroll. I mean to tie them all together with contexty comments!
alice, daisy-chain, white rabbit, waistcoat-pocket, rabbit-hole, marmalade, antipathy, antipode, curtsey, dinah, tea-time, rat-hole and 232 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Poetrie: Jabberwocky
Thanks to uselessness for the idea of Poetrie.
Be sure to see also the word page Jabberwocky, which contains a spell-checked version of this poem, thanks to His Excellency oroboros. Ri...chortled, callay, callooh, frabjous, beamish, slain, thou, hast, galumphing, snicker-snack, burbled, tulgey and 20 more...
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Jabberwordies
jabberwocky, brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock and 17 more...
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Jabberwocky
slithy, tove, brillig, gyre, grimble, mimsy, mome, outgrabe, borogoves, jabberwock, raths, jubjub and 16 more...
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jabberwocky
words from Lewis Carroll's poem
brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock, jubjub and 11 more...
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Poetic Words
outgrabe, mome raths, borogoves, mimsy, wabe, gimble, gyre, toves, slithy, brillig, twas, camelot and 76 more...
Tweets
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she A conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass:
"...And a borogove is a thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round—something like a live mop."
"And then mome raths?"... Jul 17, 2008