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 .

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.

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.

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 ...