mimsy

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Blend of miserable +‎ flimsy

Adjective

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

1. (nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".
   • (Can we date this quote?), Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

     All mimsy were the borogoves.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

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

Translations

flimsy and miserable

• French: enmîmé
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: misendeble

Etymology 2

Noun

mimsy (plural mimsies)

1. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
   • 2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], retrieved 2008-10-08:

     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.

See also

• Jabberwocky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia