 | Gustaf Adolf Bergström - 1906 - 244 Seiten
...is explained as made up of and meaning lithe + slimy (lithe in the sense of active). »You see it's like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word», savs HD h) mimsy (p. 128). This word is said to be made up of flimsy and miserable. »— there's another... | |
 | Gertrude Katherine Shepherd Peers ("Mrs. C. R. Peers.") - 1922 - 288 Seiten
...telling her that it meant two words, " lithe " and " slimy." " You see," said Humpty Dumpty, " it's like a portmanteau ; there are two meanings packed up into one word." Now we find that the old painters often packed up several pictures into one big one, and this picture... | |
 | Henry Watson Fowler - 1926 - 762 Seiten
...see -x). For p. word the OED quotes from Through the Looking-glass ' Well, " slithy " means " lithe & slimy "... You see it 's like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word '. portray. For inflexions see VERBS IN -IE &<-., 1. portress. FEMININE DESIGNATIONS. Portuguese, n.,... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1929 - 268 Seiten
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 | Lewis Carroll - 1929 - 214 Seiten
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 | Lewis Carroll - 1936 - 1330 Seiten
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 | 1936 - 460 Seiten
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 | Herbert Koziol - 1937 - 286 Seiten
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slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word. 
