brillig en · NOUN
Etymology
Supposedly from bryl or broil.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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."
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
Translations (3)
pt briluz (nonce word) · fr brilgue (nonce word) · de brillig (nonce word)