brillig

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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." uncountable
    — 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

词源

Supposedly from bryl or broil.
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