"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

MIMSY (whence MIMSERABLE and MISERABLE.) "Unhappy."


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

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