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Loch Ness
[loch1.]
The name of a loch in Scotland used attrib. of a water-monster alleged to exist in its waters. Also fig.
1933Inverness Courier 9 June 5/5 The Loch Ness ‘monster’ was seen near the west end of the Loch. 1934Discovery Jan. 14/1 That elusive creature the sea-serpent is again in the news, this time in the shape of the Loch Ness ‘monster’. 1937Ibid. Nov. 334/2 Though the Loch Ness monster itself were laid before him in all its magnitude, he would still surely find an outlet..for his nervous, driving, shrewish disposition. 1959A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries xiv. 364, I am deliberately not discussing the so-called Loch Ness monster. If there is some strange creature there it is clearly not a sea-beast bigger than a seal which might make its way up the shallow River Ness. 1965New Society 9 Sept. 7/3 Britain's brain drain appears, then, to be something of a Loch Ness monster. It surfaces sporadically, then vanishes from view. 1971Stornoway Gaz. 10 July 1/6 Preparations are now complete and they set off in a few days' time to try and capture that elusive denizen of the deep—the Loch Ness Monster. |