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Lithy vs Slithy - What's the difference?

lithy | slithy |

As adjectives the difference between lithy and slithy

is that lithy is easily bent; pliable while slithy is a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".

lithy

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easily bent; pliable.

    • Related terms

    * lithy tree (Webster 1913)

    slithy

    English

    Adjective

  • A nonce word in (Lewis Carroll)'s (Jabberwocky) combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".
    • 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe'' — Lewis Carroll, ''Jabberwocky

    See also

    * (Jabberwocky) English terms derived from fiction