Did you by any chance mean one of these? billing, brill
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. 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."
Etymologies
- Supposedly from bryl or broil. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“National Debt Clock (www. brillig.com/debt_clock).”
“I see no need why I need to get Department of the Treasury numbers from brillig.com when I can get Department of the Treasury numbers directly from the Department of the Treasury.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
““Twas brillig, and the slivy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe…””
Blagojevich, the Iambic Anglophile - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
“Google seems completely unaware that this might have something to do with the famous Samuel Goldwyn saying instead of wiring money to the brillig blogger.”
“Here's a simple recipe: 1. Pick a sentence you like e.g., "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.”
“But the translation is real gibberish: "twa? brillig and Rthe SlIthy Turks ...”
“I had written the first line from "Jabberwocky": "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves ...”
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves" the first line of Jabberwocky.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Recreational coining begins with the nonsense verses of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in the 19th century: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.”
“The first is that of Lewis Carroll, who remains at the surface of sense and, like children, makes use of the non-signifying elements of language in order to construct the portmanteau words (snark = shark + snake; frumious = furious + fuming) and nonsensical phrases (“'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe”) that populate his writing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brillig’.
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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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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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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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some of my favorites
some of my favorite words
tintinnabulation, lascivious, ontology, chthonic, eldritch, squamous, verity, specificity, euphony, cacophony, therianthrope, morbidity and 157 more...
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random assortment
antinomian ranter, supercilious, minion, carmine, circumlocution, mellisma, riverward, microtextual, callipygian, confelicitous, googlewhackery, dovetail and 179 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Bananaray's list
words to dwell on.
peregrination, dulcet, wandering, petrichor, cavort, sonant, gunge, cosmorama, efflorescence, lament, timbre, oscine and 22 more...
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jabberwordie
elby-bone, nerble, chickenbutt, luff, ya-cha-cha-cha, yanno, prolly, embiggen, vittles, hoobedoo, thing-a-ma-jig, sticky bun and 77 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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Madeupical words that I love.
Are often defined on Urban Dictionary.
P.S. You may notice my love of Lewis Carrollarachibutyrophobia, brillig, slithy, gyre, gimble, mimsy, outgrabe, frumious, tove, uffish, burble, galumph and 28 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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fantasy books > reality
magecraft, incantation, pentagram, elemental, vespers, harbinger, brillig, pullulus, entropy, exodus, cantrip, revenant and 19 more...
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pinkmerengue's Words
impecunious, hoyden, effete, wrangle, vertiginous, obfuscate, elegiac, crepuscular, corporeal, liminal, perfidious, runcible and 33 more...
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'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Made-up words and otehr such nonsense, most notably from the works of Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, and their adaptations.
brillig, slithy, tove, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogrove, outgrabe, jabberwocky, jubjub, frumious and 38 more...
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Quodlibets' List
psithurism, bafflegab, tatterdemalion, amaranthine, incarnadine, petrichor, tintinnabulation, gallimaufry, galimatias, sussurus, tetrapyloctomy, rhapsodic and 60 more...
Tweets
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she "You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir," said Alice. "Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called Jabberwocky?"
"Let's hear it," said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the poems that were ever invented—and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse.
"That's enough to begin with," Humpty Dumpty interrupted: "there are plenty of hard words there. Brillig means four o'clock in the afternoon—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
"That'll do very well," said Alice: and slithy?" Jul 17, 2008