` They 've a temper , some of them -- particularly verbs , they 're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with , but not verbs -- however , I can manage the whole lot of them ! Impenetrability ! That 's what I say ! ' ` Would you tell me , please , ' said Alice ` what that means ? ' ` Now you talk like a reasonable child , ' said Humpty Dumpty , looking very much pleased . ' I meant by `` impenetrability '' that we 've had enough of that subject , and it would be just as well if you 'd mention what you mean to do next , as I suppose you do n't mean to stop here all the rest of your life . ' ` That 's a great deal to make one word mean , ' Alice said in a thoughtful tone . ` When I make a word do a lot of work like that , ' said Humpty Dumpty , ' I always pay it extra . ' ` Oh ! ' said Alice . She was too much puzzled to make any other remark . ` Ah , you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night , ' Humpty Dumpty went on , wagging his head gravely from side to side : ` for to get their wages , you know . ' -LRB- Alice did n't venture to ask what he paid them with ; and so you see I ca n't tell YOU . -RRB- ` You seem very clever at explaining words , Sir , ' said Alice . ` Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called `` Jabberwocky '' ? ' ` Let 's hear it , ' said Humpty Dumpty . ' I can explain all the poems that were ever invented -- and a good many that have n't been invented just yet . ' This sounded very hopeful , so Alice repeated the first verse : 'T was brillig , and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves , And the mome raths outgrabe . ` That 's enough to begin with , ' Humpty Dumpty interrupted : ` there are plenty of hard words there . `` BRILLIG '' means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin BROILING things for dinner . '
` That 'll do very well , ' said XXXXX : ` and `` SLITHY '' ? '
Alice BRILLIG Dumpty Jabberwocky borogoves gyre impenetrability mimsy night wabe