It's the Word of the Day for February 21st.

Today's word is Jabberwocky, spelled J-A-B-B-B-E-R-W-O-C-K-Y.

Jabberwaki is a noun. It refers to meaningless speech or writing. Here's the word used in a sentence

from the New Yorker by J. R. Moringer. The British press now converted the book into their native tongue

that Jabberwocky of bonkers, hot takes, and classist snark. Facts were wrenched out of context.

Complex emotions were reduced to cartoonish idiocy. Innocent passages were hyped into

outrages, and there were so many falsehoods. In his poem entitled Jabberwocky from Through the

Looking Glass,

Lewis Carroll warned readers about a frightful beast with these words,

Beware the Jabberwock, my son, the jaws that bite, the claws that catch.

Beware the jub-jub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch.

This nonsensical poem caught the public's fancy upon its publication in 1871, and by the turn of the 20th century, the word Jabberwocky was being used as a generic term for meaningless speech

or writing.

The word bandersnatch has also seen some

use as a general noun with the meaning

a wildly grotesque or bizarre

individual. It's a much more rare word than

Jabberwocky though and is

entered only in the Merriam-Webster

unabridged dictionary. With your

word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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