sasquatch

• Sasquatch

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæskwɒt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæskwɑt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæskwæt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æskwɒt͡ʃ, -æskwæt͡ʃ
• Hyphenation: sas‧quatch

sasquatch (plural sasquatches)

1. (cryptozoology) A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.

   Synonym: Bigfoot

   • 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [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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