bandersnatch

American  

[ban-der-snach] / ˈbæn dərˌsnætʃ /

noun

1. an imaginary wild animal of fierce disposition.

2. a person of uncouth or unconventional habits, attitudes, etc., especially one considered a menace, nuisance, or the like.

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Etymology

Origin of bandersnatch

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

Example Sentences

First mentioned by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel “Through the Looking Glass,” a bandersnatch is a speedy fictional creature with powerful jaws, but lacking more definitive description.

From Los Angeles Times

And both girls use Carroll’s “bandersnatch” as a label for “do-gooding government busybodies” who, given Mom’s tendency to run away from home, might try to seize them.

From New York Times

Perhaps the philologists of the future may theorise as sapiently as to the origin of jabberwock and bandersnatch.

From Project Gutenberg

There’s a reported total of 312 minutes of filmed material contained in “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” over five hours of piping hot bandersnatch content.

From Los Angeles Times