jabberwocky

plural jabberwockies · alternative jabborwocky

1. uncountableusuallyInvented or meaningless language; nonsense.

   "I like the way your mind works, Hosler," Stanley said. "You go after concrete proof of your contentions - none of this scientific jabborwocky."

   1962, J. Hunter Holly, The Flying Eyes, page 47

   Synonyms: flapdoodle, jabber, mumbo jumbo, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce

comparative more jabberwocky · superlative most jabberwocky · alternative jabborwocky

1. meaningless, worthless

   Synonyms: no good, rubbishy, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking

2. absurd, nonsense, nonsensical

   Only the Pet Shop Boys can sing jabberwocky lines like “I thought I heard a train/Down in the cemetery/Cellophane” and make them sound sexy and evil.

   2009 August 28, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, absurd, Laputan, cockamamie, cockeyed, farcical

1. A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.