borogove

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. According to Humpty Dumpty, a borogove is "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." According to Mischmasch, it is "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."
    — The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric.

词形变化

borogoves plural borogrove alternative

词源

Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1855.
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