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Poem with a jubjub bird and a tumtum tree
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jabberwocky
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Word definitions for jabberwocky in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 meaningless, worthless 2 absurd, nonsense, nonsensical n. invented or meaningless language; nonsense
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jabberwocky is a card game of the trick-taking variety, played by 3 to 5 players with a standard deck of cards and pencil and paper for scoring . Its object is to bet the number of tricks one is estimating to make and to fulfill this bet (which scores a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of jabberwocky.
Walking, stumbling, sidling, Janice felt herself drowning as she pushed through wee mad clusters along the western shore of Jabberwocky, hysteria rising, building, surging until screaming became the only possible antidote.
The rolling data stream fluttered by as a pointless jabberwocky of drunken, jumbled graphics and erratic, haphazard numbers.
It has seemed impossible to a man who is not a Frenchman, and who is, therefore, tremendously excited over the case, to avoid discussion of the Jabberwocky of the Rennes court-martial as it is reported in America and England.
Their netmail was mostly jabberwocky even after Relay's best interpretation.