One Promise Kept Glossary

[manniness]

One Promise Kept Original Outlandish:
Words marked with a (*) were created specifically for yappichick's AiW fan fic Once and Always Champion and are not featured in the OPK series until near the end of Book 3.

Awespicious* – awesome, amazingly fortuitous, fanstastically auspicious

Battenmead – an alcoholic beverage made from Batten (a fruit native to Underland)

Beautrific – beautiful, terrific

Be-giddy – to make giddy or happy

Be-twix – between

Be-well – care; often used in the phrase "Be-well ye!" which is the Outlandish equivalent of the friendly farewell: "Take care!"

Bey-urious – beyond furious

Boggletogs - mushroom sprouts; often used in the phrase "Bulloghin' boggletogs!" to express one's disbelief, annoyance, or surprise

Boisterin' – loud, noisy, lively

Booly-geber – a lustful man, a pervert

Brangergain – to cause a great mess either on accident or intentionally, also used as a curse word

Brevin – short, brief

Bulloghin’ – the state of being enlarged, growing larger

Callaycious – joyous

Callouryin' – amazing

Dearlin' – an endearment, means "dear" or "sweetie"

Enpuffed – to be overly proud or arrogant

Fa – father

Flunderwhapped – gob smacked, shocked, surprised, showing a vacuous expression

Fumptwat – someone who isn’t very bright

Furymanglin’* – outraged

Geminous – precious, gem-like

Glouminous – glowing, luminous, radiant

Gratlin’ – gratifying, rewarding

Greizen’-grommer – a greedy person of few or no morals

Gruffious* – hostile, grumpy, rude

Handimade – work, creation

Hastenly – quickly

Kenfull – compassionate, knowing

Kenment – answer, piece of information, fact, explanation

Littlin' – a baby or small child (too young to apprentice to any trades)

Lovelish – lovely, inspiring great love and adoration

Maigh – Outlandish Mayfair festival, the moment spring arrives

Mam – mother

Merrianglin’ – ticklish, to tickle

Muttermongin' – gossip, a rumor (usually a damaging or particularly mean-spirited one)

Mogh’linyae – “The one who holds my heart”

Numerish – numerous, many

Prechlian – precious, without compare

Regrattlin’* – regretful, uncomfortable, awkward

Shrifty – cheating

Slithy – sneaky

Thrice – three

Thwimble fumpt – coarse language used to express one’s dissatisfaction with the universe in general

Thwumpished – defeated, beaten, bruised

Twine – two

Unshattermade* – to feel complete, whole, calm, collected, and reassured

Usal-naught – useless, without a use (as opposed to “Naught for usal” which means “It's no use”)

Wonderfulously – very, very wonderfully

 

*~*~*~*

 

One Promise Kept Shuchish:

~sh’rya – a suffix, used as an endearment meaning “of my soul”; in Book 2, Chapter 10, Dale calls Mirana “Mi-sh’rya” which would mean: “Mirana of my soul”

Mumma – mother

Orash – a kind of citrus fruit

Orashlach – an alcoholic beverage made from Orash

Papu – father

Sarleh – a traditional women’s dress similar to an Indian sari

 

*~*~*~*

Alice in Wonderland (2010) Outlandish and Underlandian terms:

Battenburg: At the tea party, Thackery offers the Knave a slice of Battenberg.  (Edit: according to a very kind reviewer, orchids_or_iris , Battenburg is an actual teatime treat made with marzipan.  Sounds yummy!)

Bessom: Thackery calls Alice a "wee bessom" when she enters the castle kitchen.  A term of endearment, perhaps.  (I hope!)

Guddler's scuttish, pilgar-lickering, shukm-juggling slurking urpal!  Bar lom muck egg brimni...! - The Hatter rants at Chessur during the tea party.

Lickspittle toadies - The Hatter calls the Red Queen's court this before he rips off Lady Long Ear's left ear to demonstrate their deceit.

Squimberry - The Red Queen's tarts were made with Squimberries.  A kind of berry.

*~*~*~*

Walt Disney's Glossary of Underland can be found here:

Please note: to view the full-size image, you may have to click and wait for it to load TWO TIMES.

 

 

*~*~*~*

 

Wonderland Words by Lewis Carroll:
Quotations taken from Literature.org, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6

Borogove - "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round -- something like a live mop"

Brillig - "four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin broiling things for dinner"

Gimble - "to make holes like a gimblet"

Gyre - "to go round and round like a gyroscope"

Mimsy - "flimsy and miserable"

Mome - "(possibly) short for "from home" -- meaning that (something has) lost (its) way"

Outgrabe - from Outgribing which is "something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle"

Rath - "a sort of green pig"

Slithy - "lithe and slimy" and, in addition, "lithe" means "active"

Toves - "something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews" and "they make their nests under sun-dials -- also they live on cheese"

Wabe - "the grass-plot round a sun-dial"

 

*~*~*~*