jabberwocky

1. 1.

   nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)

   Broadernonsense

Other forms of jabberwocky

plural

jabberwockies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jabberwocky

What does jabberwocky mean?

jabberwocky means "nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)".

How many syllables are in jabberwocky?

jabberwocky has 4 syllables and divides as jab-ber-woc-ky under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.