Outgrabe.

from Lewis Carroll – Jabberwocky on Rap Genius

“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?”

“I read it in a book,” said Alice.

—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Like Edward Lear, Carroll liked to recycle his nonsense words. Fit 5, verse 10 of Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark reads: “But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair.”

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