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    Brillig meaning

    A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
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    Origin of brillig

    • Supposedly from bryl or broil.
      From Wiktionary

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