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Poem that begins "'Twas brillig"
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jabberwocky
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Jabberwocky is a 1971 Czechoslovak animated short film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer , based loosely on the poem " Jabberwocky " by Lewis Carroll . It was produced by Erna Kmínková, Marta Sichová, Jirí Vanek, and animated by Vlasta Pospísilová.
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n. nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
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.