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
  • That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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
  • Close losses have been the bane of their season so far, but games like Wednesday’s can help with stacking wins and quelling trade chatter, even if for just another day.
    James Jackson, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Natural light plus background chatter plus the smell of coffee equals better stories for you.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • Given this strange combination—Iron Guard nostalgia and Russian trolls plus the sort of wellness gibberish more commonly associated with Gwyneth Paltrow—who exactly are the Georgescus?
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Bernie spoke gibberish to investors when talking about his strategies.
    Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 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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