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What does Jabberwocky mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
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At the same time, he is also understood to have composed the opening lines of The Jabberwocky as part of a parlour game he was playing with his family at their home.
In a similar way, nonsense verse achieves its effect by pretending to make sense, by forcing the reader to project meaning into the phonetic pattern of the jabberwocky, as one interprets the ink blots in a Rorschach test.
Along the way, she meets a cavalcade of kooks and strange creatures including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky.
Hans, Dayal and Pravin of Magic Lantern started with Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky with all its nonsense words about a brave boy who slays a monster.
They don't want jabberwocky or gobbledegook going full bore.
He co-directed the Python films and in 1977 made Jabberwocky.

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