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manxome

manxome adjective: fearsome, monstrous.

Adjective

manxome (comparative more manxome, superlative most manxome)

  1. (poetic, rare) fearsome, monstrous
    • He took his vorpal sword in hand: / Long time the manxome foe he sought— / So rested he by the Tumtum tree, / And stood awhile in thought.1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Looking-Glass House.] Jabberwocky.”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London...
    • Of only one adder were we ever possessed, which we kept, by collusion with a home-boarder, in a cucumber-frame at Harrow. In consideration of his providing the manxome beast with house-room (we early perceived that in our own house the adder would be unwelcome), and because we couldn't well get...1907 September 28, “The Trial of the Serpent”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 104, number 2709, page 389, column 1

Examples of manxome in a sentence

  • Out from the odex came a fang-gaping ilps, a vicious manxome monster which Governor Troop demolished with five well-placed immaculately-timed questions.1987, Hugh Cook, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness), Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, →ISBN...
  • Caleb had only fought a few manxome foes in his short life, and this, a Jabberwock.2016, E. S. Wesley, The Outs, Curiosity Quills Press, →ISBN, page 197:

Forms of manxome

comparativemore manxome
superlativemost manxome

Origin of manxome

Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” (see quotation below).

Questions about manxome

What does manxome mean?
Manxome means fearsome, monstrous.
How do you use manxome in a sentence?
Out from the odex came a fang-gaping ilps, a vicious manxome monster which Governor Troop demolished with five well-placed immaculately-timed questions.
What part of speech is manxome?
Manxome is an adjective.

Words near manxome in the dictionary

  1. Manxies
  2. Manxland
  3. Manxman
  4. Manxmen
  5. Manxness
  6. manxome
  7. Manxwoman
  8. Manxwomen
  9. many
  10. many a
  11. many a mickle makes a muckle

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