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Jabberwocky   Listen
Jabberwocky

noun
1.
Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll).





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"Jabberwocky" Quotes from Famous Books



... [from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like {flame}, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


Words linked to "Jabberwocky" :   hokum, nonsense, bunk, meaninglessness, nonsensicality


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