brillig
Meanings
noun
- A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
Word forms
Etymology
Supposedly from bryl or broil.
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