jabberwocky

noun

ˈja-bər-ˌwä-kē How to pronounce jabberwocky (audio)
Definition of jabberwockynext
as in nonsense
unintelligible or meaningless talk when he gets angry, he talks in a sort of agitated jabberwocky that is really quite comical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jabberwocky
  1. nonsense
  2. prattle
  3. jabber
  4. chatter
  5. gibberish
  6. mumbo jumbo
  7. burble
Noun
  • Maybe after so many years of comic-book nonsense meticulously scrutinized by online nerds, Dylanheads are just eager to have their day in the sun.
    Jordan Hoffman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The script was co-written by the director and Zack Kahn (who also came up with its story) and delivers a grab-bag of earnestly upsetting horror vignettes alongside wacky Christmas nonsense that can fall spectacularly flat.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of nonsense
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • Hong Kong and Mainland China grinded higher, led by growth stocks and consumer subsectors on chatter of holiday season vouchers and in anticipation of the post-CEWC release’s pro-consumption and fiscal policy expansion.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • With her return to Hollywood, Lohan has also caused chatter for her bold outfit choices.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • Gelb reduces Ligeti, a canonical twentieth-century figure, to a marginal weirdo who wrote esoteric gibberish.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Biden made the semi-finals this week with his gibberish at a White House health-care conference.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2024
Definition of gibberish
Noun
  • After being attacked by a lion on safari in Ghana, he’s given a mystical botanical serum mixed with lion’s blood and some mumbo jumbo about a tarot card.
    Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This, along with the ICC's decision to indict a Hamas commander—in the same breath as Netanyahu and Gallant—exposes the macabre moral equivocation that so often lurks behind the legal mumbo jumbo of both international organizations.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of mumbo jumbo
Noun
  • The drag setting requires raised voices for conversation, while normal and sport settings recede to the background burble V8 fans will recognize.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • What weird burble in the zeitgeist has somehow manifested in lines of identical Chalamets?
    Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of burble
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