JABBERWOCKY


Meaning of JABBERWOCKY in English

/jab"euhr wok'ee/ , n. , pl. Jabberwockies , adj.

n.

1. a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.

2. an example of writing or speech consisting of or containing meaningless words.

adj.

3. consisting of or comparable to Jabberwocky; meaningless; senseless.

Also, Jabberwock /jab"euhr wok'/ .

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

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .