Boojum

/ˈbuːdʒəm/ noun

A fictional creature from Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'; something elusive, confusing, or impossible to define.

A nonsense word created by Lewis Carroll in his 1876 nonsense poem. The word has no pre-Carrollian origin; Carroll invented it, possibly echoing 'bug' or 'bogey,' but it remains fundamentally inexplicable.

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