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Passing over the lines referring to the "Young Person" of Crete to whom the epithet "ombliferous" is applied, we may be pardoned -- on the ground of the geographical proximity of the two countries named -- for quoting together two stanzas which in reality are separated by a good many pages: --
Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850
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Lear gives us such gems as scroobious, meloobious, ombliferous, borascible, slobaciously, himmeltanious, flumpetty, and mumbian; while the best of Lewis Carroll's coined words are those found in
A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902
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