borogove

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Coined by Lewis Carroll, circa 1865.

Noun[edit]

borogove (plural borogoves)

  1. A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop, in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky.
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