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Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1855. The term was introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. Carroll's Humpty Dumpty describes a borogove as "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop" and in Mischmasch, it was described as "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.