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What is the borogoves?

Detroit folk band

Dude, The Borogoves wear the weirdest costumes on stage.

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The borogoves - what is it?

Charles Dodgson's nonsense word, found in 'Jabberwocky'. Approximates to a 'copse' or 'glade' but with connotations of paludality or murkiness.

"All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe"

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What does "the borogoves" mean?

1. a thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round
2. something like a live mop

1. "All mimsy were the borogoves..." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. She has a borogove in a cage at home.

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The borogoves - what does it mean?

An extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sundials; lived on veal.

A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round β€” something like a live mop.

The first β€˜o’ in β€˜borogoves’ is pronounced like the β€˜o’ in β€˜worry’.

Jeebus dude, you look as mimsy as a borogove

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