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mimzy

mimzy is the alternative spelling of mimsy.

Meaning of mimsy

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

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Forms of mimzy

comparativemore mimzy
superlativemost mimzy

Questions about mimzy

What is mimzy the alternative spelling of?
Mimzy is the alternative spelling of mimsy.

Words near mimzy in the dictionary

  1. mimsiest
  2. mimsy
  3. mimulus
  4. mimuluses
  5. Mimwheeten
  6. mimzy
  7. min
  8. Min Bei
  9. Min Dong
  10. Min Min light
  11. Min Min lights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mimzy (page history and authors); mimsy (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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