1. Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll

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

3. 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).

4. 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”.

5. Gyre
To go round and round like a gyroscope

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

7. 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.)

8. Mimsy
Flimsy and miserable.

9. 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.

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

11. Rath
A rath is a sort of green pig.

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

13. Jubjub Bird
Desperate bird that lives in a perpetual passion

14. Frumious
Fuming and Furious

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

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

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

18. Voice is gruffish, manner roughish, and temper huffish

19. Variable and evasive - wandering
Whiffling
Variable and evasive - wandering

20. To bleat/murmur/warble
Burbled
To bleat/murmur/warble

21. 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.

22. Galloping triumphantly
Galumphng
Galloping triumphantly

23. Beamish
What do you think this means?

24. Frabjous
Fabulous/joyous

25. Chuckling and snorting
Chortled
Chuckling and snorting