Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mimsy

/ˈmɪmzi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: mim-sy
IPA: /ˈmɪmzi/

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

noun

Slang

Example Sentences

"’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."
"Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones"
"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."

Etymology

Blend of miserable + flimsy.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈmɪmzi/
British English: /ˈmɪmzi/

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

mimsier (comparative) mimsiest (superlative) mimzy (alternative) mimsies (plural)

Rhymes With

flimsy whimsy slimsy

Questions

How do you pronounce mimsy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɪmzi/.
What does mimsy mean?: A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
Where does mimsy come from?: Blend of miserable + flimsy.

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