jabberwocky

How To Use jabberwocky In A Sentence

• Nowadays the word jabberwocky is used to mean nonsensical language in general. †"V Venkata Rao, Ahmedabad The Times of India
• a bit of "jabberwocky" .. but the truth is, as I wrote, that netanyahu is the lesser of the evils. Israelated - English Israel blogs
• Also the jabberwockies, this huge beak, I’ve never seen a jabberwocky done before. Interview: Nick Willing and Caterina Scorsone of Alice - Pink Raygun.com
• Last month Trevor posted a Wordie list, subtitled Econorrhea, of neologisms and portmanteaux having to do with the economic implosion, which he has now worked into a Jabberwocky parody* on Recessionwire — which is itself compiling the beginnings of what could be something fun: a recession lexicon. Beware the Econorrhea
• They don't want jabberwocky or gobbledegook going full bore.
• Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky. "...moments before it spat its rain down on me."
• Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy. Robin Lakoff: Cutting to the Chase
• Forty-four Republican senators vowed to block anyone unless and until they were satisfied that Congress would have real control over the corporation-killing, lefty jabberwocky sired by those scourges of economic growth, Senator Dodd and Representative Frank. Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No
• The word "jabberwocky" was coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in "Alice in Wonderland. The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
• Herrera's portmanteau style and ludic impulse constitute a form of visual jabberwocky, in which the familiar is confidently manipulated and destabilized.