Back then, a “portmanteau” was a suitcase, one that opened into two sections. But Carroll’s “portmanteau” has made it into mainstream dictionaries, as have several other words that Carroll made up for ...

O frabjous day! On July 4th Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland birthed words like ‘chortle,’ ‘galumph,’ and ‘snark,’ now ...

They're going to turn the words into jabberwocky anyway." — Geoff Nunberg, "I Pledge Allegiance to Linguistic Obfuscation," NPR, March 30, 2010. 6. mimsy .

JABBERWOCKY. Prior to its 1871 print debut, jabberwocky was a nonsense word that served as the nonsense title of a nonsense poem in Through the Looking-Glass.

Almost everyone around here knows the excellent bookstore of that name. Most people probably know where the name came from, or at least have stood in uffish thought about it.

A colorful new Alice ballet, with an enormous Jabberwocky puppet Washington Ballet is preparing for its extravaganza of a production, “Alice (in Wonderland).” April 18, 2025 ...