mimsy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Noun 1.4 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Blend of miserable and flimsy

[edit] Adjective

mimsy

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

[edit] Translations

• French: enmîmé m.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia article on Jabberwocky