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Miserable and flimsy: a blend-word, or bruneh-word (which see). Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, p. 128.

Yours is one that requires you to spend your time and money in ways more interesting than searching for that perfectly boring dress at that perfectly unflattering length from Coast and a tiny, mimsy, annoying little handbag to go with it from Accessorize or Lulu Guinness that you would never use in any normal kind of life.
Chortle made its debut in his Through the Looking Glass in 1872, in "Jabberwocky," the extraordinary poem-within-a-fable that begins Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. — The Word Detective
Borogove. I call her that because she ;s mimsy, a bit. — The Shipping News
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe. — Jabberwock
Anne, the mimsy-pimsy heroine of the novel, despite having been ridiculously chaste, kind — Sonic Truth