Definition of
Jabberwocky
- (noun, communication) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
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Alternate forms of Jabberwocky
Hypernyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
Origin of the word Jabberwocky
- 1872, nonsense word (perhaps based on jabber) coined by Lewis Carroll, for the poem of the same name, which he published in "Through the Looking-Glass." The poem is about a fabulous beast called the Jabberwock. more
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