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yeti|ˈjɛtɪ|
Also Yeti.
[ad. Tibetan yeh-teh little manlike animal.]
Native (Sherpa) name for a hypothetical ape-like animal whose tracks have supposedly been found in snow on the Himalayan mountains; = Abominable Snowman s.v. abominable a. 1 c.
1937Times 13 Nov. 13/5 The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them [sc. tracks] to be those of a Snowman or ‘Yeti’. 1951Times 6 Dec. 5/7 Sen Tensing immediately pronounced them to be tracks of yetis or Abominable Snowmen... He describes it as half man half beast, about five feet six inches tall, covered with reddish-brown hair but with a hairless face. 1955[see Abominable Snowman s.v. abominable a. 1 c]. 1956C. Evans On Climbing xiii. 185, I had heard that there was a yeti scalp there, and I wanted to see it. 1972J. Napier (title) Bigfoot: the yeti and sasquatch in myth and reality. 1975E. Hillary Nothing venture Nothing Win xv. 238 Even in the Thyangboche Monastery—traditionally the source of much Yeti lore and Yeti sightings—we were unable to find anyone who had seen a Yeti. |