Jabberwocky
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...."
-- Lewis Carroll (1872) (full text here)
Trying to recreate Lewis Carroll's magic vocabulary is daunting. And I don't pretend to do him justice here. But why not challenge your spell-checker, have some fun, and give it a go?
Let's word-smith! Click on a word below to see its definition and an example of how it could be used. Is the word what you expected? What would you do instead? Send me one of yours, or an add to one already here, by emailing me the word, its definition and its use in a sentence. To contact me, click here. Your word could be added to my dictionary with you cited as its creator.
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Elizabeth Toole