Word of the Day

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

SATURDAY, JANUARY 4

Jabberwocky

[JAB-ər-wok-ee]Part of speech: noun

Origin: english, 1871

• Writing or speech that contains meaningless words
• An imitation of language containing meaningless nonsense words; gibberish

Jabberwocky in a sentence

• Illya launched into a language unknown to his partner, all of it like jabberwocky to his untrained ear.
• Napoleon thought Illya's rant on quantum mechanics was just jabberwocky and tedium.

About Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky is a noun, naming any type of made-up language or nonsense words. It’s also a proper noun, as the title of Lewis Carroll’s 1871 poem, and it can be used as an adjective to describe something meaningless or senseless.

 The poem is full of fantastical language, including bandersnatch, fruminous, mimsy, and snicker-snack. Some words (chortle and galumphing) became so popular that they gained the status of “real” words.

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

"’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

"Illya are you the furrrrious Bandersssnatch?" Solo practically giggled after perfectly reciting several lines from the poem 'Jabberwocky.'

"Napoleon my friend, I think this is the last time you drink tequila on New Year's Eve...oh correction, as it is now New Year's Day."

"Tov-arisch, you can be a reaaaal..." Solo slurred. His sentence went unfinished as he passed out. Luckily they were at Mark Slate's apartment for an impromptu gathering and Napoleon was tucked under a blanket on the sofa.

Illya would never know what his parter was going to call him...not that it mattered as Kuryakin would ignore it anyway,

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Napoleon Solo listened as his partner, under the influence of half a fifth of Stoli, explained once more about some guy named Schrodinger who had a cat in a box. It seemed important to Illya, but as far as Napoleon was concerned it was all jabberwocky.