Slithy

//ˈslaɪði// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    lithe and slimy or slithery.

    "The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey."

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"'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 lithe + slimy, coined by Lewis Carroll in 1871.

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