Borogove – A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop. The initial syllable of borogove is pronounced as in borrow, rather than as in worry.
Brillig – Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.
Chortled - Perhaps a blend of chuckle and snort.
Frabjous - Probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous .
Frumious – Combination of "fuming" and "furious."
Galumphing - Perhaps a blend of "gallop" and "triumphant." (Used to describe a way of "trotting" down hill, while keeping one foot further back than the other. This enables the Galumpher to stop quickly)
Gimble – To make holes like a gimlet.
Gyre – To go round and round like a gyroscope.However, Carroll also wrote in Mischmasch that it meant to scratch like a dog.
Jubjub – A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion.
Manxome – Combination of "monstrous" and "fearsome", or possibly "manly" and "buxom". Possibly related to the Manx cat.
Mimsy – Combination of "miserable" and "flimsy."
Mome – Possibly short for "from home," meaning that the raths had lost their way.
Outgrabe – Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.
Rath – A sort of green pig.
Slithy – Combination of "slimy" and "lithe." The i is long, as in writhe.
Toves – A combination of a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sundials. They live on cheese. Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves.
Tulgey - Applied to a wood(s); (usually interpreted as) thick, dense and dark; also fig.
Uffish – A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.
Vorpal - Assumed to mean "deadly" or "extremely sharp", or perhaps to imply that the blade has magical properties.
Wabe – The grass plot around a sundial. It is called a "wabe" because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it, and a long way beyond it on each side.
Статистика показывает, что большинство форумных подписей бессмысленны. (с) Геометр Теней
Вспомнились строки про добро с кулаками и рогами... Пять минут поисков - и вот два варианта, найденных на просторах сети:
читать дальше*Вики:Одна из расхожих (ироничных) фраз, касающихся добра: «Добро должно быть с кулаками». Фраза приписывается М. Светлову, который сообщил её нескольким поэтам с просьбой написать стихотворение, начинающееся на эту строчку. Самое известное стихотворение написал Станислав Куняев*