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mimsy

Syllables: mim·syUK/ˈmɪmzi/

mimsy adjective: a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

Adjective

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

  1. (nonce-word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
    • ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^([sic – meaning wabe]); / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
    • Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Seventh. ⁠The Banker’s Fate.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published...

Noun

mimsy (plural mimsies)

  1. (slang, vulgar) 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...2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 08 Oct 2008

mimsy meaning in Tamil

mimsy in Tamil

வலுக்குறைந்த

Forms of mimsy

Adjective
comparativemimsier
superlativemimsiest
alternative formmimzy
Noun
pluralmimsies

Origin of mimsy

Blend of miserable + flimsy.

Words that rhyme with mimsy

Questions about mimsy

What does mimsy mean?
Mimsy means a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
What is mimsy in Tamil?
Mimsy in Tamil is வலுக்குறைந்த. See Mimsy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mimsy?
Mimsy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce mimsy?
Mimsy is pronounced /ˈmɪmzi/ (UK).

Words near mimsy in the dictionary

  1. mims
  2. Mimses
  3. mimsier
  4. mimsies
  5. mimsiest
  6. mimsy
  7. mimulus
  8. mimuluses
  9. Mimwheeten
  10. mimzy
  11. min

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mimsy (page history and authors); mimsy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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