Jabberwock

Jabberwock,
a fictitious monster, the subject of the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass . The story, told in an invented vocabulary, begins: ‘ 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves’. Tenniel 's drawing of the Jabberwock, originally intended as a frontispiece, was considered so terrifying by Dodgson that it was printed by the ballad in the volume; the White Knight became the frontispiece.