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Bigfoot en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Meanings
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An individual creature of this type.
My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].
2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434:The striking news on the appearance of a Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain in Xi'an, Shaanxi Provnice^([sic – meaning Province]) recently spread among local residents of Mei County located near the foot of Taibai Mountain. Is Taibai Mountain really home to a Bigfoot?
Who encountered the Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain?
Reporters interviewed many residents of Mei County, and their accounts varied.
2010 October 15, “Bigfoot sighted on Taibai Mountain”, in 叶欣, editor, People's Daily, archived from the original on 23 May 2015:
Forms
Relateds
yeti · abominable snowman · menk · skunk ape · yowie · swamp ape
Translations (9)
pl Wielka Stopa (unidentified yeti-like animal) · eo saskvaĉo (unidentified yeti-like animal) · ru бигфу́т (unidentified yeti-like animal) · tr germakoçi (unidentified yeti-like animal) · tr yeti (unidentified yeti-like animal) · mk би́гфут (unidentified yeti-like animal) · pt pé-grande (unidentified yeti-like animal) · tr karakoncolos (unidentified yeti-like animal) · ga gruagach (unidentified yeti-like animal)
Bigfoot en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Meanings
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A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
Some Earth people believe Bigfoot lives in underground caves; others believe Bigfoot is connected with extraterrestrials; still others believe Bigfoot is a spirit that can sometimes manifest in form.
1994, Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Shawnodese, “A Dream Language of the Earth”, in Dreaming with the Wheel: How to Interpret and Work with your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel, Fireside, →ISBN, page 145:Then there are the sharp divisions of opinion about whether Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus or a Neanderthal or some other hominid.
2016, Bryan Sykes, “The Guru”, in Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen, Disinformation Books, →ISBN, part II, page 173:Many enthusiasts believe that Bigfoot is not some sort of undiscovered hominid, but rather a mystical being that moves between dimensions.
2019, Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, “Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?”, in Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 77:The Bigfoot of spiders has been discovered in the caves of southwestern Oregon.
2012 August 20, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Cave Enthusiasts Find an 8-Legged Outlier”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:Stories of “Bigfoot,” an eight-foot denizen of the forest in Northern California’s wild Trinity County, are among the main topics of conversation in that area. He is supposedly an Indian or half-breed who has reverted to an animal existence. A footprint believed to be his was measured by a Redding shoe store owner and found to be size 24!
1961 July 1, “Big deal”, in Boot and Shoe Recorder, volume 160, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, →OCLC, The Last Word, page 68, column 3:This imprint was made either Wednesday night or early Thursday morning by "Big Foot".
[1958 October 6, Andrew Genzoli, “Huge Foot Prints Hold Mystery Of Friendly Bluff Creek Giant”, in Humboldt Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2010:
Forms
Deriveds
Bigfootologist · Bigfootology
Synonyms
North American Wood Ape · Sasquatch
Translations (23)
th บิ๊กฟุต (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · pt Pé-Grande (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · ko 빅풋 (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · da Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · de Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · ja ビッグフット (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · cy Troedfawr (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · sv Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · tr Kocaayak (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · no Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · cmn 大脚野人 (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · ca Peus grans (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · hu Nagylábú (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · nl Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · it Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · ar بيغ فوت (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · fi Isojalka (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · pl Wielka Stopa (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · ja ヒバゴン (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · es Pie Grande (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · fr Bigfoot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · sv Storfot (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature)) · eu Oin Handi (unidentified yeti-like animal (individual creature))
Bigfoot en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Meanings
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(alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of bigfoot.
Forms