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Definition of Runcible
1. a nonsense-word describing a pickle-fork [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runcible
Literary usage of Runcible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Notes and Queries edited by William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris (1890)
"Gerould " says truly that it is useless to call nonsense words too closely to
account, but instead of using "runcible" in what he might himself have styled ..."
2. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"He wants a runcible spoon," he said one day, and every spoon in the house ...
The Little Professor lay still, grasping his " runcible spoon " ; and he no ..."
3. Poetry, Grades 5-6 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Linda Armstrong, Jill Norris (2005)
"Lear used the invented word runcible in several poems. In "The Owl and the
Pussycat," there is a runcible spoon, but what is a runcible hat? ..."
4. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1872)
""runcible" is a nonsense word introduced in the nonsense poem for the comical
effect of a well- sounding epithet, without any shadow of meaning. ..."
5. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1893)
"In one of Edward Lear's nonsense verses occurs the following : " They ate with
a runcible spoon." Has not " runcible" a meaning ? ..."
6. Modern English Lessons by Huber Gray Buehler, Caroline Woodbridge Hotchkiss (1903)
"They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the ..."
7. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the ..."
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