borogove/ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/EtymologyCoined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1855.nounAn 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.”