Snallygaster Definition
Beware the Snallygaster!
For those who have suspected that I've made up the word (whenever pointing out a half submerged log or other bit of suspicious looking flotsam in the water, or warning someone of a dark mysterious something-or-other in the woods), there really is such a thing as a snallygaster. You've just got to have a really big unabridged dictionary to find it. I've always known it to be associated with the tidewater area of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, but apparently it originated farther west in the State. Who knows, maybe it stalks your neighborhood too.
Snallygaster Definition
Beware the Snallygaster!
For those who have suspected that I've made up the word (whenever pointing out a half submerged log or other bit of suspicious looking flotsam in the water, or warning someone of a dark mysterious something-or-other in the woods), there really is such a thing as a snallygaster. You've just got to have a really big unabridged dictionary to find it. I've always known it to be associated with the tidewater area of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, but apparently it originated farther west in the State. Who knows, maybe it stalks your neighborhood too.