WORD: jabberwocky
PRONUNCIATION: |ˈjabərˌwäkē|
DEFINITION: meaningless or invented language; nonsense
ORIGIN: from the title of a nonsense poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871).
PART OF SPEECH: noun
SENTENCE: If you are not accustomed to nautical terminology, it may sound to you like jabberwocky.
RELATED FORMS: jabberwockies (pl.)
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