Meaning & use
Bandersnatch
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A fierce, fantastical creature of rapid movement and unpredictable temper, originally invented by Lewis Carroll; now used more broadly for any wild, hard-to-catch, or unruly imaginary beast.
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The poem warns travelers to beware the frumious Bandersnatch.
Trying to organize the toddlers felt like herding a pack of bandersnatches.
A note on using this word
Lewis Carroll coined the word in "Jabberwocky" (1871); it has since become a stock example in English of a memorable literary nonsense word that outgrew its original poem.
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