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- adjective A
nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".
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Examples
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Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy."
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Yes, there's the de rigeur steampunk clocks and turning cogs and steel scraps and some kind of slithy tove rising up out of the mudflats, covered ankle-deep in water.
Second Thoughts 2009
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“Never mind the slithy toves, let me tell you about the time all the cats in the neighborhood splooped into floons….”
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Where Do You Get Your Ideas? It’s Sherwood’s Fault 2010
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Okay, call me a slithy toad, but this comment has nothing to do with your post.
Encomiums The Brillig Blogger 2010
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Fahrenheit 451, seen Sunday August 2, 2009 at the AFI Silver Theater Silver Spring MD, Auditorium #1. 2 slithy toads.
Archive 2009-08-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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Seen Sunday afternoon April 12, 2009 at the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria 14, Auditorium #6. 2 slithy toads.
Comic Mediocrity The Brillig Blogger 2009
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For those lost in uffish thought of slithy pols, Carroll is a beacon of better.
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009
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Apr. 19, Odeon Covent Garden, Aud. #1, 3 slithy toads to that list.
British Cinema The Brillig Blogger 2009
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For those of us who get lost in uffish thought of slithy pols and frumious government, Carroll is a beacon of better.
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009
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I gave issue #2 a solid 3 toads, but this issue gets 1 slithy toad.
Funny-book round-up The Brillig Blogger 2009
mollusque commented on the word slithy
He could speak with any resident adult in any language, but more notable was his ability to understand the chattery squirrels and chipmunks, the silent signals of the ants and beetles, and the slithy semaphores of the slugs and worms that moved above and through his earth.
--William Kennedy, 1983, Ironweed
November 9, 2007
sionnach commented on the word slithy
I just want to put in a word for the tove community.
November 9, 2007
skipvia commented on the word slithy
Makes me feel all mimsy...
November 9, 2007
she commented on the word slithy
A conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass:
"Well, slithy means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word."
"I see it now," Alice remarked thoughtfully: "and what are toves?"
July 18, 2008
tjohn commented on the word slithy
Slithy – Combination of "slimy" and "lithe." The i is long, as in writhe
July 15, 2009