Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Miserable and flimsy: a blend-word, or bruneh-word (which see).
Wiktionary
- adj. nonce word A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".
- n. vulgar, slang The vagina.
Etymologies
- Blend of miserable and flimsy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Last year, he even collaborated on an operetta like – as Tucker would have put it – a mimsy, bleating public schoolboy who lives with cats and an Aga.”
The Guardian: Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'
“I mean, their hair looks like it was designed on a Spirograph in the dark, then carelessly flopped on to them from atop a rickety step ladder, while their fans are all exactly the kind of mimsy mugginses who "Instagram" pictures of wheelie bins to stick on their Tumblr, because, you know, it's properly, like, photography, yeah?”
“It's mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite.”
“Tomatoes, olive oil, aubergines, grapes, grilled fish and great earthenware jars of wine dark? well, wine, are all things that mimsy food writers have developed into a bit of a cult, but I'm not entirely sure that's good enough.”
“Online morons apart, and I don't think we truly need the SNP to suggest that there "may be a way to suggest more positive Scottish role–models", because that's exactly what good drama needs, characters drawn up by mimsy politicians, this is a row utterly worth having.”
The Guardian: Is The Archers guilty of national stereotyping?
“All mimsy were the borogroves and the mothraths outgrabe.”
“My mimsy “slightly left-of-centre” ness jumps right over two whole categories to become “fairly right wing”!”
Proof that I’ve been right all along and the rest of the world is bonkers
“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
“Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. fnxtr”
Cornelius Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Scientific Theory - The Panda's Thumb
“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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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mimsy’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
kwyjibo, fnord, wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem and 22 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 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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Literary Coinage
Wonderful words or phrases authors have invented
jabberwock, thumbfumble, zippicamiknicks, gryphoemia, ansible, gloomth, grok, mimsy, nymphet, smee, runcible spoon, centrifugal bumbl... and 40 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 283 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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Strange
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 263 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Prolagus Definition (Century Dictionary):
...What's a bruneh-word? Mar 22, 2010
she Humpty Dumpty, in Through the Looking-Glass:
"...Well, then, mimsy is 'flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a borogove is..." See borogoves Jul 17, 2008