Definitions
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- noun A thin
shabby -lookingbird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop, in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky.
Etymologies
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Coined by Lewis Carroll, circa 1865.
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And a "borogove 'is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round -- something like a live mop."
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And a “borogove “is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round — something like a live mop.’
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