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Mimsy vs Mamsy - What's the difference?

mimsy | mamsy |

As nouns the difference between mimsy and mamsy

is that mimsy is the vagina while mamsy is mum, mother.

As an adjective mimsy

is a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".

mimsy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(-)
  • (nonce) A nonce word in (Lewis Carroll)'s (Jabberwocky) combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".
  • *All mimsy were the borogoves'' — Lewis Carroll, ''Jabberwocky

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (mimsies)
  • (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
  • * It seems plastic surgery for men is catching up in the lunacy stakes with the world of female plastic surgery, a place where you can fly to LA and get the shape of your vagina changed: what constitutes an appealingly shaped mimsy is something else to be filed under "unanswered questions", next to the one about who wants a huge pair of balls. — '>citation

    • See also

    * (Jabberwocky) English terms derived from fiction

    mamsy

    English

    Noun

    (mamsies)
  • (affectionate) mum, mother

    • Synonyms

    * mamsie