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jabberwocky
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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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam . It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father. The film's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 meaningless, worthless 2 absurd, nonsense, nonsensical n. invented or meaningless language; nonsense
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.