Pronounced: PAL-muh-ree, adj
Notes: Not at all what I thought this word meant
Yesterday’s word
The word jabberwocky is “meaningless speech or writing”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1900s (first decade of the 1900s)
Background / Comments
Like me, you probably know the poem “Jabberwocky” in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (published in 1872). The poem caught the imagination of the public, and our word shortly became a generic term for meaningless speech.
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