Word: boojum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portmanteau word, combining snake and shark, invented by Lewis Carroll for the ineluctable prey of his poem, "The Hunting of the Snark." One variety-the Boojum-had the power to make its hunter "softly and suddenly vanish away...