brillig

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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 — Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky.

A nonce word in Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "the time when you start broiling things for dinner", that is, four oclock in the afternoon

Etimoloji

() Supposedly from bryl or broil