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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. nonce word grumpy, ill-tempered
Etymologies
- From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish." (Wiktionary)
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.”
“I stood there in uffish thought: The spell I had used to destroy the Bandersnatch had altered my thinking in a peculiar fashion.”
“I poured my coffee, munched my muffin, and sat a while in uffish thought.”
“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!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uffish’.
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 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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jbd1's Words
mondegreen, discombobulate, ourobouros, unputdownable, gobbledygook, zephyr, obloquy, prestidigitation, glossolalia, dilapidated, revivification, truthiness and 92 more...
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wolfson's Words
cicisbeo, animadversion, drupe, callipygian, rhadamanthine, poetaster, philosophaster, grammaticaster, lacuna, infralapsarian, incunabula, logorrhea and 142 more...
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unpack your adjectives
and adverbs
walrusine, slipshod, bemused, inscrutable, bombastic, cattywampus, copacetic, famished, crackpot, flailsome, lugubrious, scalesome and 102 more...
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jabberwordie
elby-bone, nerble, chickenbutt, luff, ya-cha-cha-cha, yanno, prolly, embiggen, vittles, hoobedoo, thing-a-ma-jig, sticky bun and 77 more...
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Poetrie: Jabberwocky
Thanks to uselessness for the idea of Poetrie.
Be sure to see also the word page Jabberwocky, which contains a spell-checked version of this poem, thanks to His Excellency oroboros. Ri...chortled, callay, callooh, frabjous, beamish, slain, thou, hast, galumphing, snicker-snack, burbled, tulgey and 20 more...
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Jabberwordies
jabberwocky, brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock and 17 more...
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Madeupical words that I love.
Are often defined on Urban Dictionary.
P.S. You may notice my love of Lewis Carrollarachibutyrophobia, brillig, slithy, gyre, gimble, mimsy, outgrabe, frumious, tove, uffish, burble, galumph and 28 more...
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Asativum's Words
tatterdemalion, truthiness, eldritch, gemütlich, aa, pahoehoe, uffish, beamish, but, zymurgy, tarnation, malapropism and 59 more...
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Jabberwocky
slithy, tove, brillig, gyre, grimble, mimsy, mome, outgrabe, borogoves, jabberwock, raths, jubjub and 16 more...
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'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Made-up words and otehr such nonsense, most notably from the works of Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, and their adaptations.
brillig, slithy, tove, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogrove, outgrabe, jabberwocky, jubjub, frumious and 38 more...
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Words that ain't
Words that ain't but still are legitimate.
ricockulous, ripenisulous, apathon, titification, embiggen, cromulent, blondenfreude, truthiness, prewalking, strappleberry, uffish, urpflanze and 4 more...
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jabberwocky
words from Lewis Carroll's poem
brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock, jubjub and 11 more...
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As Yet Unrecognized by Merriam-Webster
wordinista, colbertian, uffish, manxome, bandersnatch, mayhaps, antiquintessential, abovepar, frumious, truthiness
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Novel Words
Made up words from literature
Tweets
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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