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What is your favorite word?
Zingoleb:
Ooh, if we're going to talk non-dictionary, then I use 'uffish' on a nearly daily basis. It's a really excellent word.
--- Quote from: Lewis Carroll ---"It seemed to suggest a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."
--- End quote ---
lepetitfromage:
Oooooh, I enjoy that!
Jabberwocky is a pretty fun word too :-)
Carl-E:
Oh, that deserves real-word status.
VonKleist:
Actually a lot of Carroll's nonsense-words are now standard english, like "to chortle".
Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872)
Carl-E:
Actually, "chortle" and "galumph" are the only words in that poem that made it into standard English usage. But that's pretty good!
I don't count vorpal, the only place I've heard it outside that poem is in D&D.
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