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jabberwocky

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jabberwocky /ˈdʒabəˌwɒki /
noun
(plural jabberwockies)
[mass noun] invented or meaningless language; nonsense:
the translation was slow and full of jabberwocky.
– ORIGIN early 20th century: from the title of a nonsense poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871).