borogove
/ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fictional animal, described as bird-like.
Example Sentences
- "The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric."
- "Its knee bent the wrong way, though Albert thought it was certainly the right way for the borogove . Another borogove popped out of the forest and followed the first across the road, then a third and a fourth ."
- "It smelled like a wet borogove."
- "With the Borogove's long legs, they hop and step over some incoming attacks."
Etymology
Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1855. The term was introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. Carroll's Humpty Dumpty describes a borogove as "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop" and in Mischmasch, it was described as "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/