All meemy was the studio,
And meemy maidens—wait!
Say, were they maidens? Heavens, no!
Are maidens thirty-eight?
Well, anyway, they passed for such,
For candles make a meem
That women think disguises much.
Things are not what they seem.
Moo´ble, n. 1. A mildly amusing affair; a moderate success. 2. A person or thing over whom it is difficult to be enthusiastic.
Moo´bly, adj., adv. Innocuous, feebly, without unction.
The Samoans have a word which means, “A-party-is-approaching-which-contains-neither-a-clever-man-nor-a-pretty-woman.” It’s a mooble. Dancing with your own wife is a mooble—a fairly good play, a dinner-party where the ménu makes up for the dramatis personæ—moobles!
Mooble is the word that “Damns with faint praise”—an “awfully nice girl”—why not say it point blank: “She’s a mooble.” (See Cowcat.)
Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant—a mooble.
A tame young man—a mooble. (See Snosh.)
You may be a wonder with women,—leaving a trail of fire behind you as you go—but you’re a mooble at tennis. You’re a mooble at pool, too, although you “used to play a very good game.”
Moobly novels are written by—well, of course you know already. Moobly foods: cornstarch custard, warm iced tea, vanilla ice cream. The W.C.T.U. is a mooble. So is a commencement essay, and most tall, blonde women.