(idea) by Elflaran Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:57:42
"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."

By Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872
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(idea) by jessicapierce Sat Nov 27 1999 at 15:22:42
(derived from the verb BRYL or BROIL), "the time of broiling dinner," i.e. the close of the afternoon.


Carroll's definition, printed in 1855, cited by The Annotated Alice
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