That'll do very well," said Alice: "and "slithy'?'

"Well, 'slithy' means `lithe and slimy.' `Lithe' is the same as `active.' You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word."

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

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