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Wiktionary
- adj. grumpy, ill-tempered
Examples
“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
“While he stood in uffish thought, the jabberwock with eyes of flame came whuffling through the Tulgey Wood and burbled as it came.”
““I stood in uffish thought too long and now the Emperor is dead!””
“Don't just stand there in uffish thought!" said the Cat, draining Humpty's glass and vanishing again.”
Sign of Chaos
“I stood there in uffish thought: The spell I had used to destroy the Bandersnatch had altered my thinking in a peculiar fashion.”
Sign of Chaos
“I poured my coffee, munched my muffin, and sat a while in uffish thought.”
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
“And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wook, And burbled as it came!”
“For those of us who get lost in uffish thought of slithy pols and frumious government, Carroll is a beacon of better.”
“And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!”
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chained_bear Yup. I stand in uffish thought a lot. Sometimes even in a tulgey wood. Dec 1, 2007
victoriapl from a line in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky "And, as in uffish thought he stood" Dec 1, 2007
andrew.simone Until I figure out this words meaning, it is going under Words that ain't Dec 11, 2006