Etymology

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Today it means: Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood). Full definition →

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The story

Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll around 1870 for the Jabberwock poem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.