The Jobberwacky: Chapter 3 (Influences)
A/N: The explanations and ideas behind the hideous crimes against language I committed in Chapter 1: The Jobberwacky. I hope it's interesting. Maybe you'll see something you'd like to look into.
Steps and schleps: from my 'Steps' pagelong (Chapter 4)
Snickety-snack: an idea from the phrasing of Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky.'
Mounching: from 'mounched and mounched and mounched,' Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.' One of the best words Shakespeare has given us, in my opinion.
Gnashing-on-ers: teeth, inspired by Calvin & Hobbes' 'Nauseous Nocturne.' Marvelous read.
Skulking and pontificating: a fanciful superfluity of my own invention.
Moonberry thornbushes: the image of roses under the moonlight, Shel Silverstein's Where The Sidewalk Ends, the name 'Thornberrys', and the Inkheart bit on WTSE (Silverstein.)
Echoing the thoughting-tangles: burping echo-cave, the Spongebob ride at Paramount's Great America, and a bit from the Bionicle thought-attack that happened in one of the books.
Monster-mind: Monster Mash, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Shakling: shaking (shake-ull-ing.)
Me-timbering: shivering, Pirates of the Caribbean. Mildly interesting pirate slang.
Childlings: children.
Bursting: nearly bursting with.
Hypothermic feelings: cold fear.
Pressed up against: with faces at.
The Boreal-dow: North Wind window. Greek mythology and roots of names.
Against-hoping: hoping against hope. Common phrase.
A one of saving-people thing: hero, a Harry Potter reference.
Doubleplusgracefully: very gracefully, borrowed from George Orwell's '1984' Newspeak.
Crunchety: crunchy.
Disgraced-god gnome-domain: lawn, Balder reference from Libba Bray's 'Going Bovine,' an absolutely incredible book.
Trages and galumps: more Jabberwocky, and from A. A. Milne's 'Winnie the Pooh' (Heffalumps and weasels.)
Darkening round: dark side.
Suck in no glory-feats: attract no heroics.
Tearing up: the child cries.
For tearing down: in anticipation of the terror.