One Promise Kept Glossary
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"
*~*~*~*