“That’s enough to begin with,” Humpty Dumpty interrupted: “there are plenty of hard words there. ‘ Brillig ’ means four o’clock in the afternoon⁠—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.”

“That’ll do very well,” said Alice: “and ‘ slithy ’?”

“Well, ‘ slithy ’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⁠—there are two meanings packed up into one word.”

“I see it now,” Alice remarked thoughtfully: “and what are ‘ toves ’?”