释义 |
tove|təʊv| A factitious word introduced by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (see quot. 18552). Quot. 18551 also occurs in the first verse of ‘Jabberwocky’ in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) i. 21.
1855[see slithy a.]. 1855‘L. Carroll’ Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch (1932) 142 Tove, a species of Badger. They had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag: lived chiefly on cheese. 1928[see slithy a.]. 1937G. Frankau More of Us 2 While the free-versifier gyres and gimbles The slithy tove—with his own ‘private symbols’. |