snark

views updated May 23 2018

snark imaginary animal invented by ‘Lewis Carroll’ ( C. L. Dodgson) in ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, 1876.

snark

views updated May 21 2018

snark an imaginary animal (used to refer to someone or something that is difficult to track down); the name is a nonsense word coined by Lewis Carroll in The Hunting of the Snark (1876).