Meanings
adjectivetulgey (not comparable)
- not comparableThick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky"1 more example
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.
1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69
Origin
Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll around 1870 for the Jabberwock poem.
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