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- Tibetan · calque ofམི་སྡུག་གངས་མི
- English todayabominable snowman
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.