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sasquatch Canad.|ˈsæskwɒtʃ|
Also Sasquatch.
[Salish.]
A name for a huge, hairy, man-like monster supposedly inhabiting the north-west of the U.S. and Canada. Also collect. and attrib.
1929Maclean's Mag. 1 Apr. 61/1 The strange people, of whom there are but few now—rarely seen and seldom met—..are known by the name of Sasquatch, or, ‘the hairy mountain men’. 1950C. P. Lyons Milestones on Mighty Fraser 28 Indian lore has it that a mysterious race of giants, known as the Sasquatch, live in the high mountains around Harrison Lake. 1958Encycl. Canadiana IX. 233/1 Known originally to the Indians..as Saskehavas (wild men), they are called by the..whites Sasquatch (hairy men). 1966Globe Mag. (Toronto) 11 June 3/3 Most villagers relate every Sasquatch sighting to the amount of alcohol they insist must have been consumed immediately prior to the monster's appearance. 1971W. Hillen Blackwater River xi. 108 Stories of strange lights and huge, wild, hairy men, or ‘sasquatch’, circulate periodically, usually toward spring. 1972L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag vi. 123 We scanned the steep forested slopes of the pass for Sasquatch. 1974New Yorker 25 Feb. 92/2 The Northwest's legendary Sasquatch, a huge, humanoid seven-or-so-foot creature akin to the Abominable Snowman of Tibet. 1976Toronto Star 31 Jan. 7/1 A nine-man team, using computerized information and electronic detection gear, will go sasquatch hunting in British Columbia in April or May. 1977New Yorker 20 June 72/2 It was lumpy, pitted, pocked, rough, ugly—an apparent filling from the tooth of a Sasquatch. 1979T. Gifford Hollywood Gothic (1980) v. 53, I feel like a sasquatch has been using me for a soccer ball. |