"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."
"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 portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word."
"I see it now," Alice remarked thoughtfully: "and what are `toves'?"
"Well, `toves' are something like badgers - they're something like lizards - and they're something like corkscrews."
"They must be very curious creatures."
"They are that," said Humpty Dumpty: "also they make their nests under sundials - also they live on cheese."

Lewis Carroll,
Through the Looking Glass