mimsy

English

Etymology 1

Blend of miserable and flimsy

Adjective

mimsy (not comparable)

1. (nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".
   • All mimsy were the borogoves — Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

Translations

flimsy and miserable

• French: enmîmé (fr)

Etymology 2

Noun

mimsy (plural mimsies)

1. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
   • 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. — Alexis Petridis. "Nut Jobs?", The Guardian, 2008-08-30. Retrieved on 2008-10-08.

See also

• Jabberwocky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Jabberwocky