"And what does 'outgrabe' mean?"

"Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe -- down in the wood yonder -- and when you've once heard&it you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"

By Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

OUTGRABE, past tense of the verb to OUTGRIBE. (It is connected with old verb to GRIKE, or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak.") "Squeaked."


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

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