boojum

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a boojum, which was inevitably regarded as a gross reflection on the snark.

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  1. An imaginary animal introduced by C. L. Dodgson (“Lewis Carroll”) as a particularly dangerous variety of ‘snark,’ into his “Hunting of the Snark.”
  2. Book of responses in Scots law, the account, kept by the directors of the chancery, for entering all non-entry and relief duties payable by heirs taking precepts from chancery.
  3. Book of the Covenant a code of laws which, according to Exodus xxiv., is ascribed to Moses. Recent writers consider the substance of the code to be found in Exodus xx. 24-xxiii. 19. Also called Greater Book of the, Covenant.
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  • One endangered plant, called the boojum, looks like a punk artist's version of an upside-down carrot. —  Omni: July 1994
  • There is the tax bogeyman, the terror snark, the "othering" boojum. —  Blog of the Moderate Left
  • Comments on "Lazy Thursday poll ~ the best buy ever" boojum said: —  Now Smell This
  • Their own name was Hohenzollern XIII THE AGE OF THE PURITANS We should be very much bored if we had to read an account of the most exciting argument or string of adventures in which unmeaning words such as "snark" or "boojum" were systematically substituted for the names of the chief characters or objects in dispute; if we were told that a king was given the alternative of becoming a snark or finally surrendering the boojum, or that a mob was roused to fury by the public exhibition of a boojum, which was inevitably regarded as a gross reflection on the snark. —  A Short History of England
  • For my part, I suspect your Prince met a boojum. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
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  1. A made word based unconsciously on boo, with a Latin-looking termination, -jum, -ium.
 

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