English Explanatory Dictionary

manxome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. fearsome, monstrous

Word forms

manxome more manxome most manxome

Etymology

Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” (see quotation below).

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