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JABBERWOCKY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jabberwocky mean? 

JABBERWOCKY (noun)
  The noun JABBERWOCKY has 1 sense:

1. nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)play

  Familiarity information: JABBERWOCKY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JABBERWOCKY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("jabberwocky" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)


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