mimsy

English

Blend of miserable +‎ flimsy.

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

(nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
- 1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There‎^[1]:
  ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^{[sic – meaning wabe]}; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
- 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Seventh. ⁠The Banker’s Fate.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
  Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones

flimsy and miserable

mimsy (plural mimsies)

(vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- 2008 August 30, Alexis Petridis, “Nut Jobs?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2026:
  It seems plastic surgery for men is catching up in the lunacy stakes with the world of female plastic surgery, a place where you can fly to LA and get the shape of your vagina changed: what constitutes an appealingly shaped mimsy is something else to be filed under "unanswered questions", next to the one about who wants a huge pair of balls.