Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Miserable and flimsy: a blend-word, or bruneh-word (which see).
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- adjective nonce word A
nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable". - noun vulgar, slang The
vagina .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Last year, he even collaborated on an operetta like – as Tucker would have put it – a mimsy, bleating public schoolboy who lives with cats and an Aga.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010
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I mean, their hair looks like it was designed on a Spirograph in the dark, then carelessly flopped on to them from atop a rickety step ladder, while their fans are all exactly the kind of mimsy mugginses who "Instagram" pictures of wheelie bins to stick on their Tumblr, because, you know, it's properly, like, photography, yeah?
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Tomatoes, olive oil, aubergines, grapes, grilled fish and great earthenware jars of wine dark? well, wine, are all things that mimsy food writers have developed into a bit of a cult, but I'm not entirely sure that's good enough.
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Online morons apart, and I don't think we truly need the SNP to suggest that there "may be a way to suggest more positive Scottish role–models", because that's exactly what good drama needs, characters drawn up by mimsy politicians, this is a row utterly worth having.
Is The Archers guilty of national stereotyping? Euan Ferguson 2010
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It's mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite.
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My mimsy “slightly left-of-centre” ness jumps right over two whole categories to become “fairly right wing”!
Could local be the new British? Alix Mortimer 2009
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Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
Cornelius Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Scientific Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. fnxtr
Cornelius Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Scientific Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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All mimsy were the borogroves and the mothraths outgrabe.
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My mimsy “slightly left-of-centre” ness jumps right over two whole categories to become “fairly right wing”!
Proof that I’ve been right all along and the rest of the world is bonkers Alix Mortimer 2009
she commented on the word mimsy
Humpty Dumpty, in Through the Looking-Glass:
"...Well, then, mimsy is 'flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a borogove is..." borogoves'>See borogoves
July 18, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word mimsy
Definition (Century Dictionary):
...What's a bruneh-word?
March 22, 2010