mimsy
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- proper noun
- Everyone loves my Aunt Mimsy for her gentle and playful nature.
- Aunt Mimsy
- call me Mimsy
- said Mimsy
Examples
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I like Mimsy.
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I'm Mimsy... ..and this is my sister Coral.
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My Grandma Mimsy used to tell us...
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Jackie, this is my grandmother, Mimsy.
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..to call me Elly... ..and you, Mimsy,... ..to call me Bev.
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Mimsy.
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Mimsy?
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With Mimsy Carlyle.
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"Remember Mimsy's house party, when you did your backflip over Princess Mignarotti's table and landed on the salmon?"
Fiction book (1990) -
It's time for the 4,323rd edition... of the Farnsworth Television Ministry with... Mimsy Carlyle, God's own songbird.
Synonyms
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A warm name someone older uses for a daughter or close young woman
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A girl's or woman's name often used as a short form of Elizabeth
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A female name often used as a friendly nickname
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A friendly short name people use for Michelle
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A woman's name often short for Megan or Margaret
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A short, friendly form of the name Susan or Susannah
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A Japanese name for women
A small, very cute person or animal that people often call by a nickname
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mimsy as a name comes from Lewis Carroll's playful made-up word, and because it sounds soft and cute it is used as a gentle, friendly nickname. That's why a character called Mimsy often feels kind, gentle, and easy to like.