- beamish
- a variant of “beaming,” meaning “shining brightly, radiant.” (TAA)
- borogove
- “a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round— something like a live mop.” (ALG)
- brillig
- “four o’clock in the afternoon— the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.” (ALG)
- burble
- possibly “burst” and “bubble” or “bleat,” “murmur,” and “warble” (TAA)
- frumious
- “fuming” and “furious” (TAA)
- to galumph
- “gallop” and “triumphant,” meaning “to march on exultantly with irregular bounding movements.” (TAA)
- to gimble
- “to make holes like a gimlet” (ALG)
- to gyre
- “to go round and round like a gyroscope” (ALG)
- mimsy
- “flimsy and miserable” (ALG)
- mome
- possibly “‘from home’— meaning that they’d lost their way.” (ALG)
- to outgribe
- “something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle” (ALG)
- rath
- “a sort of green pig” (ALG)
- slithy
- “lithe and slimy” (ALG)
- toves
- “something like badgers— they’re something like lizards— and they’re something like cork-screws.... also they make their nests under sun-dials— also they live on cheese.” (ALG)
- tum-tum
- colloquialism referring to the sound of a stringed instrument, especially when monotonously strummed. (TAA)
- uffish
- According to Carroll, “a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.” (TAA)
- wabe
- “the grass-plot around a sun-dial,” called such “because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it, and a long way beyond on each side.” (ALG)
- whiffling
- blowing unsteadily in short puffs (TAA)
Sources:
- (ALG) - The conversation between Alice and Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll.
- (TAA) - The Annotated Alice, Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner