Jabberwocky Definition

jăbər-wŏkē
noun
Nonsensical speech or writing.
American Heritage
Meaningless syllables that seem to make sense; gibberish.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective

Meaningless, worthless.

Wiktionary

Absurd, nonsense, non-sensical.

Wiktionary
pronoun

A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

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Origin of Jabberwocky

  • The name of a poem from the nonsensical children's literature Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872) by Lewis Carroll.

    From Wiktionary

  • After “Jabberwocky,” a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Jabberwocky, a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll

    From Wiktionary

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