Jabber is short-hand for Jabberwock or
Jabberwocky.
1872, nonsense word (perhaps based on jabber) coined by
Lewis Carroll, for the poem of the same name, which he published in "Through the Looking-Glass." The poem is about a fabulous beast called the Jabberwock.
1. Jabberwocky- a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
2. Jabberwocky- A mysterious creature unexplained by literal means. Figuratively, a being
undefined and mysterious; subjectively determined by symbolic means.