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  • Lear gives us such gems as scroobious, meloobious, ombliferous, borascible, slobaciously, himmeltanious, flumpetty, and mumbian; while the best of Lewis Carroll's coined words are those found in

    A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902

  • a certain number of cockney rhymes, wonderfully flowing and even melodious -- or, as he would say, _meloobious_ -- while to all these qualifications for his task must finally be added the happy gift of pictorial expression, enabling him to double, nay, often to quadruple, the laughable effect of his text by an inexhaustible profusion of the quaintest designs.

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

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