Did you by any chance mean smithy?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".
Etymologies
- Blend of slimy and lithe (Wiktionary)
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 | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 213 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, also words associated with shady behaviour
phony paper passin, stroppy, situation, clip, flip, artform, volatile, teleport, squee, futz, fizzog, hotch up and 23 more...
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WF - nonce words and hapax legomena
Nonce words are one-time word formations, recorded or non-recorded (which may occur several times within a literary work or utterance). A hapax legomenon is a recorded one-time word formation withi...
wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem, fendle, tupa and 32 more...
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wingblossom's Words
flicker, wrinkle, solipsism, tea, aurora, lilt, burnt, crescent, gale, pocket, ephemeral, candied and 136 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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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 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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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 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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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 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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Ironweed
Words gathered while reading Ironweed by William Kennedy.
asteraceae, brogan, gravid, gandy, advent, slithy, dipso, flinty, suspire, henna, heller, nutsy and 90 more...
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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