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Word: Jabberwocky
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 20th century: from the title of a nonsense poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈdʒabəˌwɒki
Dialects: British English
Definition:
invented or meaningless language; nonsense
Short Definition:invented or meaningless language
Examples:- the translation was slow and full of jabberwocky
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