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jabberwocky
[ jab-er-wok-ee ]
noun
plural jabberwockies.
- a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- an example of writing or speech consisting of or containing meaningless words.
adjective
- consisting of or comparable to meaningless words; meaningless; senseless.
jabberwocky
/ 藞诲萧忙产蓹藢飞蓲办瑟 /
noun
- nonsense verse
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of jabberwocky1
Coined in 1871 by Lewis Carroll ( def ) in 鈥淛abberwocky,鈥 poem in Through the Looking Glass; nonsensical formation perhaps inspired by jabber ( def ); claimed around 1883 by Carroll to mean 鈥渢he result of much excited and voluble discussion鈥 and derive from jabber + Old English wocer, wocor 鈥渇ruit, offspring,鈥 also 鈥渋ncrease, usury鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of jabberwocky1
C19: coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in Through the Looking Glass (1871)
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Her intolerance for political jabberwocky and inflated ego was equaled by her seemingly boundless personal generosity, which often led her to help strangers in need.
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Only 53 percent of Republican and Democratic voters combined oppose declaring Jesus jabberwocky our national faith.
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Republicans鈥 verbal gyrations over the Iraq War should not be dismissed as the usual rhetorical jabberwocky of an election season.
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