Pronounced: HORE-tuh-tore-ee, adj
Notes: I pretty much knew this word, but I don’t think it is generally known
Yesterday’s word
The word bandersnatch is “a wildly grotesque or bizarre individual”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
As I noted, I recognized the word as coming from the poem Jabberwocky in the book Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The word came to refer to any strange or suspicious character.
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