Mimsy vs Null - What's the difference?
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(nonce) A nonce word in (Lewis Carroll)'s (Jabberwocky) combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".
*All mimsy were the borogoves'' — Lewis Carroll, ''Jabberwocky
(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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between mimsy and null
is that mimsy is (vulgar|slang) the vagina while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective mimsy
is (nonce) a nonce word in (lewis carroll)'s (jabberwocky) combining the senses of "flimsy" and "miserable".mimsy
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Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
Noun
(mimsies)See also
* (Jabberwocky) English terms derived from fictionnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.