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- proper noun A
nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jabberwocky is the name of the poem in which the Jabberwock appears!
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No wonder the dragon-like beings in Avatar are known as banshees and the Jabberwocky is never called the "d" word in Alice in Wonderland.
'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes fire into the film genre
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I was first introduced to Kathe Koja's work with her short story "Bonneville" in Jabberwocky magazine back in the early 1990s.
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Oh, and I should mention that Christopher Lee voices the Jabberwocky, which is just icing on this Wonderland cake, as is the amazing score by long-time Tim Burton collaborator Danny Elfman.
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When he emailed me after I posted those thoughts on the book mostly to explain his reasons for the slang, it gave me an opportunity to tell him that we'd actually corresponded before -- I was about fourteen, I think, and he had just founded a magazine called Jabberwocky that lasted for two issues.
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When he emailed me after I posted those thoughts on the book mostly to explain his reasons for the slang, it gave me an opportunity to tell him that we'd actually corresponded before -- I was about fourteen, I think, and he had just founded a magazine called Jabberwocky that lasted for two issues.
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There is also a terrifying dragon type beast called the Jabberwocky at the Red Queen's command.
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There is also a terrifying dragon type beast called the Jabberwocky at the Red Queen's command.
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Faced with wild claims that she is destined to slay some beast called the Jabberwocky, Alice, whom some in Underland swear has been there before, must decide for herself what to do.
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Faced with wild claims that she is destined to slay some beast called the Jabberwocky, Alice, whom some in Underland swear has been there before, must decide for herself what to do.
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