sasquatch

Definition

A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.

Etymology

Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).

Example Sentences

• "[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."

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