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語源

Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll around 1870 for the Jabberwock poem.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈtʌl.d͡ʒi/, /ˈtʌl.ɡi/

形容詞

tulgey (not comparable)

1. Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).
   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":

     The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:

     I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.