1. a thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round
2. something like a live mop
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.
2. She has a borogove in a cage at home.
by zeekage October 26, 2003
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 — something like a live mop.
The first ‘o’ in ‘borogoves’ is pronounced like the ‘o’ in ‘worry’.
A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round — something like a live mop.
The first ‘o’ in ‘borogoves’ is pronounced like the ‘o’ in ‘worry’.
by lewis_carroll June 06, 2007
Charles Dodgson's nonsense word, found in 'Jabberwocky'. Approximates to a 'copse' or 'glade' but with connotations of paludality or murkiness.
by anycon September 30, 2004