It's the word of the day for February 21st.
Today's word is Jabberwocky, spelled J-A-B-B-E-R-W-O-C-K-Y.
Jabberwocky 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.
Morenger.
The British press now converted the book into their native tongue,
that Jabberwocky of bonkers hot takes and classic 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, 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.