“Well, a ‘ rath ’ is a sort of green pig: but ‘ mome ’ I’m not certain about. I think it’s short for ‘from home’⁠—meaning that they’d lost their way, you know.”

“And what does ‘ outgrabe ’ mean?”

“Well, ‘ outgrabing ’ is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you’ll hear it done, maybe⁠—down in the wood yonder⁠—and when you’ve once heard it you’ll be quite content. Who’s been repeating all that hard stuff to you?”

“I read it in a book,” said Alice. “But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by⁠—Tweedledee, I think it was.”