mimsy

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪmzi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmzi
• Hyphenation: mim‧sy

Blend of miserable +‎ flimsy

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

1. (nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
   • 1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There‎^[1]:

     ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^{[sic – meaning wabe]}; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

   • 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Seventh. ⁠The Banker’s Fate.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:

     Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones

mimsy (plural mimsies)

1. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
   • 2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], retrieved 8 October 2008:

     It seems plastic surgery for men is catching up in the lunacy stakes with the world of female plastic surgery, a place where you can fly to LA and get the shape of your vagina changed: what constitutes an appealingly shaped mimsy is something else to be filed under "unanswered questions", next to the one about who wants a huge pair of balls.

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