gyre

1. To go round and round like a gyroscope

1. She's going to gyre in the ballet.

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gimble

1. to make holes like a gimlet

1. He's going to gimble the wood.

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rath

1. a sort of a green pig

1. "...and the mome raths outgrabe." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2.The farmer has a flock of raths.

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galumphing

1. To move or run clumsily or heavily.

1. "He went galumphing back." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. The little kid went galumphing to his mother to show her something.

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brillig

1. four o'clock in the afternoon
2. the time when you begin broiling things for dinner

1. "'Twas brillig..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. His mom starts dinner at brillig.

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wabe

1. a grass plot round a sundial
2. goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it

1. "...and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. She put the sundial in the wabe.

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slithy

1. Both lithe and slimy where 'lithe' is the same as 'active'

1. The snake was very slithy

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