Snark.
A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
Meaning & usage
A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
Where this word comes from
Coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in The Hunting of the Snark (1874). According to Beatrice Hatch, Carroll created this word as a blend of snail + shark.
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