Jabberwocky
[ jab-er-wok-ee ]
/ ˈdʒæb ərˌwɒk i /
noun, plural Jab·ber·wock·ies.
a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
an example of writing or speech consisting of or containing meaningless words.
adjective
consisting of or comparable to Jabberwocky; meaningless; senseless.
Also
Jab·ber·wock
[jab-er-wok] /ˈdʒæb ərˌwɒk/.
Origin of Jabberwocky
coined by Lewis Carroll in
Jabberwocky, poem in
Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Example sentences from the Web for jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll really did introduce the word “chortle” to the English language in his 1871 poem Jabberwocky.
A setting of Lewis Carroll's immortal "Jabberwocky" shows much rich humor of the college glee-club sort.
Contemporary American Composers |Rupert HughesI heard somebody say "Sh," but she started in her toothless Jabberwocky.
The Red Rugs of Tarsus |Helen Davenport Gibbons
British Dictionary definitions for jabberwocky
jabberwocky
/ (ˈdʒæbəˌwɒkɪ) /
noun plural -wockies
nonsense verse
Word Origin for jabberwocky
C19: coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in
Through the Looking Glass (1871)