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1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass i. 22 The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood.]

1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold i. iii. 38 It was the strangest jumble of vowels and consonants I had ever met... It was some maniac talking Jabberwock to himself.

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 12 The movable mounting for the observer's gun in the rear cockpit was a weird contraption like a giant catapult... We called it the Christmas Tree, the Heath Robinson, the Jabberwock, [etc.].

1959 Listener 29 Jan. 226/1 His [sc. Skelton's] tendency to jabberwock (like Pound or Eliot, Skelton was a polylingual versifier).

1963 Guardian 22 July 5/5 He jabberwockied, pulling furiously at his ear-lobe as he talked.

1908 Daily Chron. 10 Apr. 4/7 Those exceptional modern folk who write with equal ease in the ordinary left-to-right manner and in ‘Jabberwocky’ fashion..right to left.

1926 Glasgow Herald 7 Oct. 5 From ‘Jabberwocky’ it is but a short step to the old-fashioned nursery-rhyme.

1931 E. Wilson Axel's Castle vi. 227 The dreaming mind does not usually speak—and when it does, it is more likely to express itself in the looking-glass language of ‘Jabberwocky’ than in anything resembling ordinary speech.

1939 Times 25 Feb. 15/5 It is all very Jabberwocky, and so far the writers of the movement [surrealism] have the advantage of the artists.

1953 H. Miller Plexus (1963) ii. 57 Realizing in a short time that I was not in the least interested in all this jabberwocky, and thinking of Mona waiting for me to lunch with her, I suddenly interrupted him.

1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset vi. 126 Sometimes, to confuse the issue,..he would indulge in his own subtle form of jabberwocky.

1970 J. Fleming Young Man, I think you're Dying xii. 164 He was going to wear her down, intimidate her, tame and train her to obey, and a whole lot of other jabberwocky which he couldn't..remember now.

1972 Collector's Guide Aug. 12/1 (advt.) Worcester first period teapot stand ‘Jabberwocky pattern’.