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
  • And yeah, some of the items on his list are utter nonsense.
    Eric Miquelon, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There is no nonsense in Ron Norsworthy’s gaze or tone.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 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
  • Quartz’s Rocio Fabbro runs down Powell’s limited chatter about it.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Around 9:15, someone turned up the volume and Rachel Maddow’s voice rose above the chatter, warning that results would be coming in all night.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • In addition to all that work, Coffin voices the demented gibberish spewed by the Minions, the bright yellow creatures who work alongside Gru. Renaud, who co-helmed the fourth installment with Patrick Delage, says that the French influence was also there from the start.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • For example, at one point the voice suddenly sped up and spewed gibberish.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Definition of gibberish
Noun
  • The rub is that his world is dying because of some specific mumbo jumbo that leads Wade to seek out a Wolverine from a parallel universe to save it.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
  • That's marketing mumbo jumbo just like Apple's Retina display, but this new OLED purportedly offers a 40 percent higher peak brightness than the Pixel 7A—up to 2,000 nits (1,400 nits with HDR).
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 7 May 2024
Definition of mumbo jumbo
Noun
  • The soundtrack of Niu Shack consists of the gentle swoosh of leaves and the burble of the nearby river, which forms a pool-like swimming hole just underneath the property.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • All night long, the soundtrack of existence was the burble and splash of Hat Creek outside my window, but come dawn the birds took over.
    Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
Definition of burble
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