Disney released a glossary of terms. Some of them you will recognize if you've read Lewis Carroll (I actually watched a family member express her realization that there's a book.. She's a teacher...) Some of the terms are new to this adaptation:
- Bandersnatch, The: evil creature under the control of the Red Queen.
- Brillig: 4 o’clock in the afternoon. When one begins broiling things for dinner.
- Crims: The central area of Underland.
- Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid: Down with the Red Queen, the slogan of the Resistance.
- Ezel: High, go higher, go up.
- Fairfarren: Farewell. May you travel far under fair skies.
- Frabjous day: The day Alice slays the Jabberwocky and frees Underland from the oppression of the Red Queen.
- Frumious: Dirty and smelly.
- Futterwacken: The Underlanders’ dance of unbridled joy.
- Gallymoggers: Crazy.
- Gribling: The day Alice will return to Underland.
- Guddler’s scut: Thief’s butt.
- Gummer Slough: Dangerous swamp of thick viscous mud.
- Horunvendush Day: The day the Red Queen took control of Underland.
- Jabberwocky: A deadly creature employed as the Red Queen’s ultimate weapon.
- Jubjub Bird: A Bird under the control of the Red Queen.
- Kiotchyn: ‘Heads’ up or ‘pay attention’.
- Naught for usal: It’s no use trying.
- Noge: Go low down.
- Nunz: Wait or ‘Don’t go, not now’.
- Oraculum: The Calender of all the days of Ulnderland. Each day has its own title and illustration.
- Orgal: To the left.
- Outlands: The untamed land to the west of Witzend.
- Outlandish: The old language spoken only in the Outlands and used by the Underland resistance as a secret code in the revolution against the Red Queen.
- Pishsalver: A potion that makes one shrink.
- Queast: A land to the east, but ‘not in the least’.
- Quillian: The following day after Alice returns.
- Saganistute: A wise person of poetry and vision.
- Salazen Grum: A port city where the Red Queen lives.
- Shukrn: Faeces. Ewww.
- Sloth: Slowly
- Stang: To the right.
- Slurvish: Selfish or self-centered.
- Snud: A region in the south of Underland.
- Tulgey Wood: Where Alice meets the Jabberwocky.
- Underland: The real name for the place Alice calls Wonderland.
- Upelkuchen: A cake that makes one grow.
- Slurking urpal slackush scrum: rude or dirty words of the most foul meaning.
- Witzend: The western land where the Mad Hatter and March Hare were born.
- Yadder: Far away. Way yadder beyond the Crossling in Snud.
- Zounder: A warning to ‘look out behind you!’
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