brillig

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[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɹɪ.lɪɡ/
  • enPR: brĭʹlĭg
  • Hyphenation: BRI(L)-lig

[edit] Etymology

Supposedly from bryl or broil

[edit] Adjective

brillig (comparative more brillig, superlative most brillig)

Positive
brillig

Comparative
more brillig

Superlative
most brillig

  1. A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe — Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky.

[edit] Translations

  • French: Il brilgue
    Note: "Il brilgue" translates the whole phrase "'Twas brillig". The French version of the poem is in the present tense rather than the past. "'Twas brillig" is therefore translated as if it were "'Tis brillig". This has not been translated as il est followed by an adjective; instead, a verb "brilguer" has been invented with the meaning "to be brillig". "Il brilgue" then corresponds to "'tis brillig", and therefore stands for the whole phrase "'Twas brillig" in the poem.
  • German: brillig de(de)

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[edit] German

[edit] Adjective

brillig

  1. brillig
    Es brillig war - 'Twas brillig
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