Snark
A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
Proper noun
- 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
Origin
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.