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jabberwocky::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
Examples of jabberwocky
jabberwocky
He was, I have to admit, depressingly spot-on in pointing out that a comparison to jabberwocky is inevitable.
From the scienceblogs.com
She hurts, as they say, the Republican brand, with her mess and her rhetorical jabberwocky and her careless causing of division.
From the online.wsj.com
No jabberwocky from your broker.
From the businessweek.com
Through puns and transpositions of literal and metaphorical imagery, Carroll transformed English into a kind of hallucinatory jabberwocky.
From the time.com
For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan.
From the time.com
District promoter Elroy Johnson, a loudly lovable jabberwocky, was uncharacteristically subdued when he called a few days ago to talk about Pep.
From the washingtontimes.com
Moneymen were outraged by the ruling, while consumers were left more bewildered than ever by the jabberwocky of interest rates given by banks and S and Ls.
From the time.com
Next season the monarch of sitcom will have two new shows on the air, and these too seem likely to slice through prime-time jabberwocky to hit Americans in nerve end and funny bone.
From the time.com
Another example given by Douglas Hofstadter is the translation of the jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll, with its wealth of neologisms and portmanteau words, into a number of foreign tongues.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
- "Jabberwocky" is a poem of non-sense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). The book tells of Alice's travels within the back-to-front world through a looking glass. ...
- Jabberwocky (Czech: u017Dvahlav aneb u0161atiu010Dky slamu011Bnu00E9ho Huberta) is a 1971 Czechoslovak animated short film written and directed by Jan u0160vankmajer, based loosely on the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. It was produced by Erna Kmu00EDnkovu00E1, Marta Sichovu00E1, Jiru00ED Vanek, and animated by Vlasta Pospu00EDsilovu00E1.
- Jabberwocky is a progressive rock album released in 1999 by British keyboardists Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman. It was the first of two albums released by the duo.
- This is a list of episodes for the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted. The first season ran from March 18, 2009 to August 11, 2009. The second season premiered on December 8, 2009. ...
- Jabberwocky is a card game of the trick-taking variety, played by 3 to 5 players with a standard deck of cards and pencil and paper for scoring.
- Jabberwocky (1977) is a comic medieval film directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father. The name is taken from the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.
- Jabberwocky was a daily children's TV show designed for 5-10 year-olds that eventually went into national syndication. ...
- An example of writing or speech consisting of or containing meaningless words
