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  • proper noun A fantastical dreaded monster with flaming eyes who is depicted in a poem of Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Etymologies

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See Jabberwocky.

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Examples

  • Night of the Jabberwock is good reading all the way.

    Archive 2007-01-07 Bill Crider 2007

  • Night of the Jabberwock was a mystery by Fredric Brown, a prolific author of both SF and mysteries.

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Killus 2008

  • Night of the Jabberwock was a mystery by Fredric Brown, a prolific author of both SF and mysteries.

    Jabber James Killus 2008

  • Victory twined about his ears, the Jabberwock is a somewhat ghastly, humorous figure.

    Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

  • Yes, The Jabberwock was the one who came to watch.

    Popular in the last 8 hours 2009

  • Shirley Brooks loved to read the "Jabberwock" to them, and Sir John Tenniel, like his old chief,

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • "But tell us, Herb, how are we to proceed to get a sight of this 'Jabberwock' alive?"

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • But, of the former, the friend who has helped us most on the road to success is Mr. Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland," &c. Our readers will remember his kind letter granting us permission to use the name "Jabberwock," and also giving the meaning of that word.

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

  • Cricket, chanting another verse of the "Jabberwock," pranced up and struck a match.

    Cricket at the Seashore Elizabeth Weston Timlow 1896

  • Now my favorite poem, I regret to say, is Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwock," a fact I was ashamed to confess to an utter stranger, so I tried to deceive him by thinking of some other lines.

    The Water Ghost and Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

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