Meaning

1 senses
  1. (capitalized, often)A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.

    Yeti, Schneemensch

    сне́жный челове́кsnéžnyj čelovék, йе́тиjjéti

    a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I heard that they found the footprints of an abominable snowman in the Himalayas.

  2. I heard that footprints of an abominable snowman have been discovered in the Himalayas.

  3. I heard that footprints of an abominable snowman were found in the Himalayan mountains.

    ruСлышал, что следы жуткого снежного человека были найдены в горах Гималая. — astyng

  4. I heard that they discovered the footprints of an abominable snowman in the Himalayan mountains.

  5. Why is a yeti called "the abominable snowman" if he's neither a man nor abominable?

Translations

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By meaning 1
humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas:
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By meaning 1
humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas:

Origin

First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག

First attested in 1921. Calque of Tibetan མི་སྡུག་གངས་མི (mi sdug gangs mi), from མི་སྡུག (mi sdug, “repulsive, unlovely, ugly, hideous”) and གངས་མི (gangs mi, “snowman”).

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Forms

plural: abominable snowmen

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas:yeti

Word family

4 related words

See also

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