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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

yeti a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas; it is informally known as the Abominable Snowman. The term is recorded in English from the 1930s, and comes from Tibetan yeh-teh ‘little manlike animal’.

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yeti XX. Native Sherpa (Tibetan) name of the Abominable Snowman, a subhuman animal supposed to leave tracks in the snow of the Himalayas.

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yet·i / ˈyetē; ˈyātē/ • n. a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas.

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