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jab·ber·wock·y

(jăb′ər-wŏk′ē)

Nonsensical speech or writing.

[After "Jabberwocky," a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.]

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jabberwocky

(ˈdʒæbəˌwɒkɪ)

n, pl -wockies

nonsense verse

[C19: coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in Through the Looking Glass (1871)]

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jab•ber•wock•y

(ˈdʒæb ərˌwɒk i)

n., pl. -wock•ies. (sometimes cap.)

writing or speech with nonsensical words.

[coined by Lewis Carroll in “Jabberwocky,” poem in Through the Looking Glass (1871)]

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Noun

jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)

hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning

jabberwocky

noun

1. Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or language:

abracadabra, double talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo.

2. Unintelligible or foolish talk:

babble, blather, blatherskite, double talk, gabble, gibberish, jabber, jargon, nonsense, prate, prattle, twaddle.

Translations

jabberwocky

n (inf: = nonsense) → Nonsens m, → Kauderwelsch nt

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JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

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ILLEGAL

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Designed in 1903 by mathematician and educationalist William Garnett for his family, its design was inspired by Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky. The four-bedroom Edwardian house is set in large gardens, has a double-height ballroom along with an unusual minstrel gallery.

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