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