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 March 1876, →OCLC:
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 the one about who wants a huge pair of balls.2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 08 Oct 2008: