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Word of the Day - Jabberwocky

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jabberwocky

/ˈdʒabəˌwɒki/
noun
mass noun
Invented or meaningless language; nonsense.

Origin

Early 20th century: from the title of a nonsense poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871).

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To most Earthlings, the Klingon language is pure jabberwocky. A subset disagrees.

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