tulgey
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Etymology edit
Nonsense coinage by Lewis Carroll.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tulgey (not comparable)
- Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).
- 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":
- The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:
- I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.