Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

Brillig Bryllyg (derived from the verb to bryl or broil). The time of broiling dinner, i.e., the close of the afternoon.

Slithy Slythy (compounded of slimy and lithe). Smooth and active. The proper pronounciation for the word, slithy is slithy with a long “i” (such as in lithe).

Tove Tove, a species of badger. They had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag; lived chiefly on cheese. “Toves” should be pronounced to rhyme with “groves”.

Gyre To go round and round like a gyroscope

Gimble Gymble (whence gimblet). To screw out holes in anything.

Wabe The grass plot round a sundial ... because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it ... and a long way beyond it on each side. (Humpty Dumpty’s explanation was made with some “insights” from Alice.)

Mimsy Flimsy and miserable.

Boro-goves Borogove. An extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sundails; lived on veal. The first ‘o’ in ‘borogoves’ is pronounced like the ‘o’ in ‘worry’. The word is commonly mispronounced as “borogroves”… and this misspelling even appears in some American editions of the book.

Mome I’m not certain about mome. I think it’s short for ‘from home’ — meaning that they’d lost their way.

Rath A rath is a sort of green pig.

Out-grabe Outgribing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle

Jubjub Bird Desperate bird that lives in a perpetual passion

Frumious Fuming and Furious

Fast-moving animal with dangerous jaws and an extendable neck Bander-snatch Fast-moving animal with dangerous jaws and an extendable neck

Manly/buxom (in the masculine sense) Manxome Manly/buxom (in the masculine sense)

Tumtum The sound of a stringed instrument – create an image of what you think this is!

Voice is gruffish, manner roughish, and temper huffish

Variable and evasive - wandering Whiffling Variable and evasive - wandering

To bleat/murmur/warble Burbled To bleat/murmur/warble

Comes from the old English word “snickersnee”, which is a large knife. Snicker-snack Comes from the old English word “snickersnee”, which is a large knife.

Galloping triumphantly Galumphng Galloping triumphantly

Beamish What do you think this means?

Frabjous Fabulous/joyous

Chuckling and snorting Chortled Chuckling and snorting