We recognise immediately that toves and wabe are nouns, and gyre and gimble are verbs; also, brillig must be either an adjective or a noun, and slithy is an adjective.

What does the word Wabe mean?

Wabe: The characters in the poem suggest it means "The grass plot around a sundial", called a 'wa-be' because it "goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it". In the original Mischmasch text, Carroll states a 'wabe' is "the side of a hill (from its being soaked by rain)".

Is Wabe a real word?

Wabe is a nonsense word from the 1872 poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. Wabe or WABE may also refer to: WABE FM 90.1, a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia. Wabe language, a language isolate spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico.