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  2. Mad as a hatter - Wikipedia

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    An adaptation of the Old English word atter meaning "poison", and closely related to the word adder for the venomous crossed viper. Lexicographers William and Mary Morris in Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (1977) favour this derivation because "mad as a hatter" was known before hat making was a recognized trade. [1]

  3. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat - Wikipedia

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    The Mad Hatter reciting, with the Dormouse next to him, as illustrated by John Tenniel "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a verse recited by the Mad Hatter in chapter seven of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". [1]

  4. Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Wikipedia

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    The Mad Hatter appeared in the Sunsoft's 2006 mobile game Alice's Warped Wonderland (歪みの国のアリス, Yugami no kuni no Arisu, Alice in Distortion World). The Mad Hatter is portrayed as a middle-school age boy in oversized clothes and a large hat that covers his whole head.

  5. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Mad as a hatter or Mad hatter Derogatory term (referring to a mentally ill person or a person with brain damage and dementia caused by heavy metal poisoning ) popularized especially due to the fictional character of the same name

  6. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Other writers use the poem as a form, much like a sonnet, and create their own words for it as in "Strunklemiss" by Shay K. Azoulay [54] or the poem "Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly" recited by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1979 book which contains numerous other references and homages to Carroll's work.

  7. Unbirthday - Wikipedia

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    The scene from the film combines the idea of an unbirthday introduced in Through the Looking-Glass with the "Mad Tea Party" described in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [5] Later in the film; the Mad Hatter mentions this unbirthday party when he is summoned as a witness at Alice's trial.

  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.

  9. Dormouse (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland character)

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    The March Hare and the Hatter put the Dormouse's head in a teapot. Illustration by John Tenniel. The Dormouse sat between the March Hare and the Mad Hatter. They were using him as a cushion while he slept when Alice arrives at the start of the chapter. The Dormouse is always falling asleep during the scene, waking up every so often, for example ...