English word senses marked with topical category "Lewis Carroll"

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Total 38 word senses

• Alice band (Noun) A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband.
• Alice in Wonderland (Adjective) As in a surreal fairy tale where things work at odds to the way they do in the real world.
• Alice in Wonderland (Noun) An observer of strange, incomprehensible or disorienting situations.
• Alice in Wonderland (Noun) A strange, fantasy-like creation or situation that follows its own bizarre logic.
• Alice in Wonderland syndrome (Noun) A disorienting neurological condition involving micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities.
• Bandersnatch (Proper name) An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems.
• Carrollian (Adjective) Of or pertaining to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) or his writings, most notably a type of imaginative fantasy involving humorous plays on words and logic.
• Cheshire cat (Proper name) A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
• Jabberwock (Proper name) A fantastical dreaded monster with flaming eyes.
• Jabberwocky (Proper name) A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
• Queen of Hearts (Noun) A woman who has gained the adoration of the public.
• Red Queen hypothesis (Proper name) An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing environment.
• Snark (Proper name) A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
• Snark (Proper name) A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
• Tweedle-dee (Proper name) A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dum and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
• Tweedle-dum (Proper name) A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dee and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
• borogove (Noun) An animal introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. According to Humpty Dumpty, a borogove is "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." According to Mischmasch, it is "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."
• brillig (Noun) 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."
• caucus race (Noun) The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
• caucus race (Noun) A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
• caucus race (Noun) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.
• chortle (Noun) A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.
• frabjous (Adjective) Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.
• frumious (Adjective) Extremely angry.
• galumphing (Verb) Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner.
• jabberwocky (Noun) Invented or meaningless language; nonsense.
• looking-glass (Noun) A way into a bizarre world.
• mad as a March hare (Adjective) Crazy, demented.
• mad hatter (Noun) A lunatic; a highly eccentric person.
• mimsy (Adjective) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
• portmanteau (Noun) A portmanteau film.
• rabbit hole (Noun) A way into such a world.
• slithy (Adjective) lithe and slimy or slithery.
• snicker-snack (Interjection) An onomatopoeia of unclear meaning, possibly referring to sharpness, or the sound of a blade cutting through something.
• tulgey (Adjective) Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).
• unbirthday (Noun) A day that is not one's birthday but is celebrated as though it were.
• vorpal (Adjective) Sharp or deadly.
• wonderland (Noun) An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels.

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