This week’s theme
Lewis Carroll

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rabbit hole
phlizz
jabberwock
white knight
boojum


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Next week’s theme
Exempli gratia

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(BOO-juhm)

MEANING:

noun: An imaginary or elusive goal whose pursuit may lead to ruin.

ETYMOLOGY:

After an imaginary animal in Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Hunting of the Snark”. In the poem, the Boojum is a particularly dangerous type of Snark, whose sudden appearance causes the hunter to “softly and suddenly vanish away”. Earliest documented use: 1876.

USAGE:

“Wheeler would find a new boojum to hunt, and be hunted by.”
Harry Blank; The Breach Goes On: Deadlined Hub; 2024.

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