Gimble

[Bushwhacker]

A character is named Garth the Gimble. Is this Gimble something in English. I'm not able to find the word at any dictionary

Thanks

 

[bhaisahab]

A character is named Garth the Gimble. Is this Gimble something in English. I'm not able to find the word at any dictionary

Thanks

There is a very obscure verb "to gimble about" in BrE, which means to walk around aimlessly. I don't know if that helps.

 

[Bushwhacker]

There is a very obscure verb "to gimble about" in BrE, which means to walk around aimlessly. I don't know if that helps.

Thank You but I'm afraid this character is from the underground of the city, a criminal. This meaning doesn't seem to fit fully. Walking around is fine, but aimlessly...

 

[ianhood]

I think the word "gimble" was invented by Edward Lear the humorist. In the poem Jabberwocky he has: "'twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. It is a nonsense poem containing several nonsense words.

 

[Linguist__]

(Not a teacher)

If we are taking it to be 'gimble' from the 'Jabberwocky' poem from 'Through the Looking Glass', then Humpty Dumpty tells us what it is:

Alice: 'And what's the "gyre" and to "gimble"?'

Humpty Dumpty: 'To "gyre" is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To "gimble" is to make holes like a gimlet.'

Note that it is a nonsense word.