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Slithy vs Slitty - What's the difference?

slithy | slitty |

As adjectives the difference between slithy and slitty

is that slithy is a nonce word in (lewis carroll)'s (jabberwocky) combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe" while slitty is slitlike.

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

    slitty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slitlike.
  • * 1997 , Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II
    • Chatting to some British students, he cheerily remarked that they would get "slitty eyes" if they stayed too long in China.
  • * 1998 , Julie Myerson, Me and the Fat Man
    • We choose the farthest away church with the blackest, slittiest windows and he pulls me and Jimmy in.

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