In Through the Looking Glass, Alice meets Humpty Dumpty and enlists his aid in trying to find the meaning of the poem Jabberwocky. Humpty Dumpty is more than happy to be helpful, though Alice is frequently far from sure that his interpretation should actually be considered helpful. After Alice recites the first verse of the poem for him, Humpty Dumpty stops her:
"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."So whenever I didn't have to pay extra for being overweight I tried to pack as much into my suitcase word titles as possible, often with links to something that might explain, or expound upon, their content.
"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."
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