gimble

1. to make holes like a gimlet

1. He's going to gimble the wood.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

gyre

1. To go round and round like a gyroscope

1. She's going to gyre in the ballet.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

galumphing

1. To move or run clumsily or heavily.

1. "He went galumphing back." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. The little kid went galumphing to his mother to show her something.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

wabe

1. a grass plot round a sundial
2. goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it

1. "...and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. She put the sundial in the wabe.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

outgrabe

1. something between bellowing and whistling with a kind of sneeze in the middle

1. "...and the mome raths outgrabe." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. The kid behind me started outgrabing.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

borogoves

1. a thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round
2. something like a live mop

1. "All mimsy were the borogoves..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. She has a borogove in a cage at home.

by zeekage October 26, 2003

brillig

1. four o'clock in the afternoon
2. the time when you begin broiling things for dinner

1. "'Twas brillig..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. His mom starts dinner at brillig.

by zeekage October 26, 2003