Word: Jabberwocky

The Word of the Day for Mar 12 is:
jabberwocky \JAB-er-wah-kee\ noun

: meaningless speech or writing

Example sentence:
"The salesman started spewing computer jabberwocky at me like an auctioneer. I understood about every sixth word he uttered." (Larry D. Clifton, The Tampa Tribune, September 6, 1998)

Did you know?
In a poem titled "Jabberwocky" in the book Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872), Lewis Carroll warned his readers about a frightful beast:

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

This nonsensical poem caught the public's fancy, and by 1902 "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 rarer word than "jabberwocky," though.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

My sentence:
Every time I engage in a telephone "conversation" with my cable company, the individual at the other end of the line seems to speak nothing but jabberwocky.