Bigfoot

See also: bigfoot

English

Alternative forms

Big Foot

Etymology

August/September 1958,[1] originally Big Foot, big +‎ foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪɡˌfʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

Bigfoot (plural Bigfoot or Bigfeet or Bigfoots)

The costume of the Bigfoot

(US, Canada, cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
- [1958 October 6, Andrew Genzoli, “Huge Foot Prints Hold Mystery Of Friendly Bluff Creek Giant”, in Humboldt Times‎, OCLC 320776427, archived from the original on June 11, 2010:
  This imprint was made either Wednesday night or early Thursday morning by "Big Foot".]

Synonyms

Sasquatch
North American Wood Ape

Related terms

bigfootologist

Translations

unidentified yeti-like animal

Arabic: بيغ فوت‎ (byġ fwt)
Basque: Oin Handi
Catalan: Peus grans m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大脚野人 (dàjiǎo yěrén)
Danish: Bigfoot c
Dutch: Bigfoot m
Esperanto: saskvaĉo
Finnish: Isojalka
French: Bigfoot (fr)
German: Bigfoot (de) m
Hungarian: Nagylábú
Irish: gruagach m
Italian: Bigfoot
Japanese: ビッグフット (biggufutto), ヒバゴン
Korean: 빅풋 (bikput)
Macedonian: би́гфут m (bígfut)
Norwegian: Bigfoot
Polish: Wielka Stopa f
Portuguese: Pé-Grande m (as an individual creature), pé-grande m (as a species)
Russian: бигфу́т (ru) m (bigfút)
Spanish: Pie Grande m
Swedish: Storfot c, Bigfoot c
Thai: บิ๊กฟุต (bíkfút)
Turkish: Kocaayak (calque), yeti (tr), karakoncolos (tr), germakoçi (literally 'mountainman' in laz language)
Welsh: Troedfawr m

Verb

Bigfoot (third-person singular simple present Bigfoots, present participle Bigfooting, simple past and past participle Bigfooted)

Alternative spelling of bigfoot

References

“Bigfoot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary