A fictional plant from Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'; something that exists more as a concept than in reality.
A nonsense word created by Lewis Carroll in his 1876 poem 'The Hunting of the Snark.' The word has no linguistic origin before Carroll; it is pure imaginative invention, though it may echo 'bogey' or 'bug.'
Carroll's 'Snark' is either a Boojum or not—and creatures that exist in literature become real enough that Carrollian scholars still debate them centuries later, proving that made-up words can have real impact.
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