sasquatch en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈsæskwɑt͡ʃ/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/ (General-American)
- /ˈsæskwɒt͡ʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).
Meanings
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A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
[Riley] Keough plays one of the family of four sasquatches (the mythical creature also known as bigfoot) that the film follows over the course of a year as the primitive, grunting ape-like creatures lumber through the forests of the Pacific north-west of America. […] At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sasquatches | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Sasquatch | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
yeti · abominable snowman · menk · yowie
Synonyms
Translations (19)
tr karakoncolos (a hairy humanoid creature) · ru бигфу́т (a hairy humanoid creature) · pl Sasquatch (a hairy humanoid creature) · cmn （北美）大腳野人 /（北美）大脚野人 (a hairy humanoid creature) · sw Saskwachi (a hairy humanoid creature) · es Sascuache (a hairy humanoid creature) · is Stórfótur (a hairy humanoid creature) · chn tʼsiyatkʰu (a hairy humanoid creature) · eo saskvaĉo (a hairy humanoid creature) · ja サスカッチ (a hairy humanoid creature) · tr yeti (a hairy humanoid creature) · hu szaszkvács (a hairy humanoid creature) · ko 사스콰치 (a hairy humanoid creature) · ru саскво́ч (a hairy humanoid creature) · tr kocaayak (a hairy humanoid creature) · fi isojalka (a hairy humanoid creature) · fr sasquatch (a hairy humanoid creature) · hu nagylábú (a hairy humanoid creature) · de Sasquatch (a hairy humanoid creature)