jabberwocky
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- noun
- /ˈdʒæbərˌwɑki/
- Literature
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palabrería sin sentido
- The artist's speech was pure jabberwocky, leaving everyone confused about his actual message.
- nonsense jabberwocky
- jabberwocky poem
Examples
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No, this kind of jabberwocky speech has become Standard Operating Procedure for the GOTEA Party.
Blog text (27) -
The Jabberwocks get their quirky name from the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky.
Blog text (19) -
These mnemonic games can even be fun—like learning to recite Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky"—but it is knowledge divorced from understanding.
Academic text (1994) -
The children's story was full of jabberwocky, making it hard to understand.
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Reading his latest manuscript, I realized it was just a collection of jabberwocky that lacked any coherent meaning.
Synonyms
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Words or ideas that do not make sense
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Speech or writing that does not make sense
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Talk that is foolish and has little meaning
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Confusing speech or writing full of technical words that most people cannot understand
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Silly, unimportant talk that has no meaning
Short funny poems that use silly words and strange ideas
Speech or writing that is hard to understand and sounds like nonsense
Antonyms
How Nonsensical
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jabberwocky comes from Lewis Carroll's playful poem and joins the common word jabber ('talk fast or nonsense') with the made-up part wocky, giving a strong image of silly, invented language. So, jabberwocky means speech or writing that is 'nonsense' or has no clear meaning.