mimsy BrE

Or as our old friend put it, “when people go out to eat, do they really enjoy eating mimsy food?”

It is easy to be mimsy about Wandisco's chances.

She expected the best in everything, especially jewellery, and didn't give a hoot for mimsy notions of good taste.

You might as well say mimsy bomtittle plays, you'd be saying as much.

The music and designs are mimsy; the onstage world gets very sketchy at the edges.

He doesn't mess around with mimsy qualifications either.

It was there in the casual nature of the passing, all those mimsy flicks and overelaboration.

Don’t be fooled by the mimsy name.

Somewhere deep down – especially in mimsy times – I believe Rabelais is the only way to go.

Oddly, all it could come up with was a mimsy little bout of sinusitis – perhaps I was tired.

Nathan and Mimsy return in the episode "Handicar".

"We slithe among the mimsy troves," Kirk sang.

You can ignore the ministerial funsuckers, but it's too late, their needling, mimsy warnings play on a loop in our heads.

Soon, her speeches will just be things like: "For too long, Americans have wandered in a gormless wabe, mimsy and absturpated.

Robust enough to resist being mimsy, as we British say, and yet not at all coarse, its crystal-encrusted steel frame hangs like a flower-laden bough.

In one corner of the room stood a sewing-machine, and on the long table were piles of mimsy stuff out of which feminine creations are constructed.

I must admit to not being very keen on "exquisite", which starts with a car crash of consonants and has some fairly mimsy associations running alongside it.

The Son and Squire travel and meet the mimsy borogoves, who sing their national anthem ("Borogovia").

Mimsy Farmer was working in a hospital in Canada when director Dan Haller called asking if she wanted to be in the film.

Ian Martin, writer and "swearing consultant" on The Thick Of It, worries it's become a bit "mimsy".

But they decide to continue the quest and the mimsy borogoves and slithy toves encourage them in a large-scale production number ("Tulgey Wood").

Jerry Stratton wrote of Songs of the Doomed on the Mimsy Book Review site:

And it was fashion that Mr. de la Renta belted out, not mimsy, tentative gestures that require expertise in obscure literary references.

The eight words are: bandersnatch, beamish, frumious, galumphing, jubjub, mimsiest (which previously appeared as mimsy in "Jabberwocky"), outgrabe and uffish.

The show begins with a scene-setting wordless prologue, "Brillig", which introduces the mythical characters, the mimsy borogoves, the slithy toves, and the mome raths.