单词 | abominable snowman |
释义 | Abominable Snowmann. = yeti n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > abominable snowman Abominable Snowman1921 snowman1931 yeti1937 1921 Times 31 Oct. 10/6 The men were never seen..but footprints were found which were suspected of being those made by these men, who are apparently known to the Tibetans as Meetoh Kangmi, or ‘Abominable Snowmen’, and small colonies of these people are believed to exist on the slopes of Everest, Chumalhari, and Karola. 1938 H. W. Tilman in E. Shipton Blank on Map 203 It seems unnecessary to search for a new species when we have a perfectly satisfactory one at hand in the form of the Abominable Snowman—new perhaps to science but old in legend. 1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 A British party which set out to investigate the Abominable Snowman or Yeti found that legendary creature most elusive and returned with only a few more photographs of footprints. 1998 New Scientist 22 Aug. 39/3 A few weeks ago a German magazine sent him some Abominable Snowman dung. It actually turned out to be fox scat. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. i. 4/1 ABSM , Etymology: Ivan T. Sanderson's initialism for Abominable Snowman, which he used as a generic name for any unknown primate or hominid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1921 |
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