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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