| 单词 | slithy toves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslithy toves A word invented by ‘Lewis Carroll’: ‘smooth and active’ (‘Carroll’, 1855, 140) and popularized esp. in slithy toves from Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Also in subsequent allusive uses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > smoothly gliding1603 soft1667 sedate1684 joltless1808 slithy1855 the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > smooth and slippery slippera1050 slibbery?c1225 slidderya1250 slidder1398 lubric1490 slid1513 slippery1551 icy?1552 slipperous1585 glib1594 gliding1594 slicked1594 glibbery1601 lubrical1602 slape1671 slithery1825 slithy1855 butter-smooth1868 slick1901 1855 ‘L. Carroll’ Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch (1932) 139 Twas bryllyg and the slythy [1871: slithy] toves Did gyre and gymble in the wabe. 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 27 Sept. (1928) II. 48 I watched him [sc. a lizard] come forth to-day—very slithy—and eat an ant. 1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World xiii. 291 Eight slithy toves gyre and gimble in the oxygen wabe; seven in nitrogen. 1937 G. Frankau More of Us 2 While the free-versifier gyres and gimbles The slithy tove—with his own ‘private symbols’. 1960 H. Marchand Categories Present-day Eng. Word-formation x. 368 Lewis Carroll's slithy.., chortle..have become common property. Shakespeare's glaze (f. glare and gaze) has not. 1981 Time Out 20–6 Mar. 54/1 Pity the slithy toves of academe. < as lemmas |
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