bandersnatch

[ ban-der-snach ]

noun

an imaginary wild animal of fierce disposition.
a person of uncouth or unconventional habits, attitudes, etc., especially one considered a menace, nuisance, or the like.

Origin of bandersnatch

Coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass (1871)

It would be more delightful if he could also fetch the mighty glyptodon, the terrible dinotherium, and the stately bandersnatch.
The Librarian at Play | Edmund Lester Pearson
Perhaps the philologists of the future may theorise as sapiently as to the origin of jabberwock and bandersnatch.
The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest Weekley
bandersnatch's name never even appeared on the race-card last week.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 | Various
After all, I need a bandersnatch, dont I, to keep me straight?
The Confounding of Camelia | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
I am sure you look like a bandersnatch; a biting, snarling creature.
The Confounding of Camelia | Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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