Mimsy
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The vagina. slang, vulgar
"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."
- 1 A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky nonce-word
"’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."
Example
More examples"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe."
Etymology
Blend of miserable + flimsy.
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