Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".
Examples
“Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy.”
“Yes, there's the de rigeur steampunk clocks and turning cogs and steel scraps and some kind of slithy tove rising up out of the mudflats, covered ankle-deep in water.”
“Okay, call me a slithy toad, but this comment has nothing to do with your post.”
““Never mind the slithy toves, let me tell you about the time all the cats in the neighborhood splooped into floons….””
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“For those lost in uffish thought of slithy pols, Carroll is a beacon of better.”
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera
“For those of us who get lost in uffish thought of slithy pols and frumious government, Carroll is a beacon of better.”
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera
“I gave issue #2 a solid 3 toads, but this issue gets 1 slithy toad.”
“Fahrenheit 451, seen Sunday August 2, 2009 at the AFI Silver Theater Silver Spring MD, Auditorium #1. 2 slithy toads.”
“Seen Sunday afternoon April 12, 2009 at the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria 14, Auditorium #6. 2 slithy toads.”
“Apr. 19, Odeon Covent Garden, Aud. #1, 3 slithy toads to that list.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slithy’.
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 122 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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crime slang
slang terms for crimes
phony paper passin, stroppy, situation, clip, flip, artform, volatile, teleport, squee, futz, fizzog, hotch up and 14 more...
tjohn Slithy – Combination of "slimy" and "lithe." The i is long, as in writhe Jul 14, 2009
she A conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass:
"Well, slithy means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word."
"I see it now," Alice remarked thoughtfully: "and what are toves?" Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Makes me feel all mimsy... Nov 9, 2007
sionnach I just want to put in a word for the tove community. Nov 9, 2007
mollusque He could speak with any resident adult in any language, but more notable was his ability to understand the chattery squirrels and chipmunks, the silent signals of the ants and beetles, and the slithy semaphores of the slugs and worms that moved above and through his earth.
--William Kennedy, 1983, Ironweed Nov 9, 2007