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boojum|ˈbuːdʒəm|
[Invented by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (C. L. Dodgson) in The Hunting of the Snark (1876).]
An imaginary animal, a particularly dangerous kind of ‘snark’.
1904B. von Hutten Pam iii. vi. 146 We shall see a good deal of each other. I am a boojum, and I know. 1922Edin. Rev. Oct. 241 Both these beautiful abstractions are in reality boojums. 1925Blackw. Mag. Mar. 345/1 A solitary Boojum-like person. 1950Auden Enchafèd Flood (1951) i. 42 The dreadful Boojum of Nothingness. |