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    In what book does Humpty Dumpty explain to Alice words from Jabberwocky, saying, "Well, slithy means lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word"?

    Question #93110. Asked by BRY2K. (Mar 03 08 7:24 PM)


    maninmidohio

    		The quote is by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In it Carroll defines the word portmanteau which he made up to cover other words he was making up like slithy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau

    Mar 03 08, 8:59 PM

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