(idea) by Elflaran Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:57:45
"Well, the "mimsy' is "flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you)."

By Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

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(idea) by jessicapierce Sat Nov 27 1999 at 15:30:46
MIMSY (whence MIMSERABLE and MISERABLE.) "Unhappy."


Carroll's definition, printed in 1855, cited by The Annotated Alice
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