brillig
English edit
Etymology edit
Supposedly from bryl or broil.
Noun edit
brillig (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."
- 1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
