Meanings
sasquatch1
plural sasquatches · alternative Sasquatch
- biologyA large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
1 more example
[Riley] Keough plays one of the family of four sasquatches (the mythical creature also known as bigfoot) that the film follows over the course of a year as the primitive, grunting ape-like creatures lumber through the forests of the Pacific north-west of America. […] At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: Bigfoot
Sasquatch2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
Origin
- Halkomelemsásq’ets“hairy man”
- Englishsasquatch
Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).
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Chinese Mandarin （北美）大腳野人 /（北美）大脚野人
- （北美）大腳野人 /（北美）大脚野人a hairy humanoid creature
Esperanto saskvaĉo
- saskvaĉoa hairy humanoid creature
Finnish isojalka
- isojalkaa hairy humanoid creature
French sasquatch
- sasquatcha hairy humanoid creature
German Sasquatch
- Sasquatcha hairy humanoid creature
Hungarian szaszkvács, nagylábú
- szaszkvácsa hairy humanoid creature
- nagylábúa hairy humanoid creature
Icelandic Stórfótur
- Stórfótura hairy humanoid creature
Japanese サスカッチ
- サスカッチ (Sasukatchi)a hairy humanoid creature
Korean 사스콰치
- 사스콰치 (saseukwachi)a hairy humanoid creature
Polish Sasquatch
- Sasquatcha hairy humanoid creature
Russian саскво́ч, бигфу́т
- саскво́ч (saskvóč)a hairy humanoid creature
- бигфу́т (bigfút)a hairy humanoid creature
Spanish Sascuache
- Sascuachea hairy humanoid creature
Swahili Saskwachi
- Saskwachia hairy humanoid creature
Turkish kocaayak, yeti
- kocaayaka hairy humanoid creature
- yetia hairy humanoid creature
- karakoncolosa hairy humanoid creature
Cite this entry
sasquatch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sasquatch
“sasquatch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sasquatch. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sasquatch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sasquatch.
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