JABBERWOCKY


Meaning of JABBERWOCKY in English

ˈjabə(r)ˌwäkē, -ki noun

also jab·ber·wock -äk

( plural jabberwockies also jabberwocks )

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: jabberwocky from Jabberwocky, a nonsense poem in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) died 1898 English author and mathematician; jabberwock from Jabberwock, the fabulous monster in the poem Jabberwocky

: meaningless speech, writing, or patter : gibberish

bringing the house down with … his jabberwocky patter and his energetic clowning — Life

began to babble in jabberwocky — Leo Rosten

carries on his heated conversations … in a sort of jabberwock — Arthur Knight

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.