Jabberwocky

Favorite words from Lewis Carroll's poem, Jabberwocky from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

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beamish
smiling with happiness or optimism
beware
be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
bite
to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
blade
the flat part of a tool or weapon that has a cutting edge
burble
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
chortle
a soft partly suppressed laugh
dead
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
flame
combustion of materials producing heat and light and smoke
foe
an armed adversary
galumph
move around heavily and clumsily
gyre
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
joy
the emotion of great happiness
shun
avoid and stay away from deliberately
slain
killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
snatch
grasp hastily or eagerly
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

Created on 七月 24, 2008