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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mimsy/ˈmɪmzi/

▶adjective rather feeble and prim or over-restrained.

– origin 1871: nonsense word coined by Lewis Carroll; a blend of miserable and flimsy.

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