Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1921, translating Tibetan meetaoh kangmi.
Wiktionary
n. (context cryptozoology often capitalized English) A bearlike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.(R:MW3 1976: page=5)
WordNet
n. large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas [syn: yeti]
Wikipedia
Abominable Snowman is a common name for the yeti, an apelike animal cryptid said to inhabit the Himalaya region of Nepal and Tibet.
Abominable Snowman may also refer to:
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The Abominable Snowman (film), a 1957 British horror film, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing
- A character in The Abominable Snow Rabbit, a 1961 Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon that spoofed the 1957 film
- The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, the 38th book in author R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series
- The Abominable Snowman (gamebook), a gamebook in the Choose Your Own Adventure series
- Abominable Snowman (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
- The Abominable Snowmen, a 1967 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
- Abominable Snowman, the name Jimmy gives to himself in the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Abominable snowman (Pixar), a character in the film Monsters, Inc., voiced by John Ratzenberger
Usage examples of "abominable snowman".
Yeti smiled, causing even an intrepid fellow like Sir THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN 89 Hilary to fall back a step or two.
We started following footpaths up the mountains, hunting for a pass to the other side, where Clyde was sure he could get a line on the Abominable Snowman in a little town called Saka, but once we found the pass all it did was lead us out of the Kunlun Mountains into the Tangkula Mountains, which were even higher and colder, and before long we were sitting in a cave at about ten thousand feet in the middle of a howling blizzard, warming our hands next to a fire he'd built and trying real hard not to listen to our teeth chattering.
Those tracks in the snow that Gyong thought were an Abominable Snowman's.
In the meantime, I had applied a lot of thought to the plight of the abominable snowman and, more important, to his origins.
Flying saucers, Big Foot, the Bermuda Triangle, the Abominable Snowman, all sorts of weird things out there.
I patted the Abominable Snowman on the belly and resumed my appointed seat, ready to let Jimmy have another go at me.
It straddled Crap-OffThe-Hudson like an abominable snowman with icy armpits and a pale, waiting face.
It straddled Crap-Off-The-Hudson like an abominable snowman with icy armpits and a pale, waiting face.
The last time I saw you, you'd given up the Abominable Snowman business and were hiding out from Guido Scarducci's friends and relations in Nepal.