squatch
n.— «From more than 30 expeditions, we know that sasquatches are primates with certain predictable behavior patterns.…The name “bigfoot” has caught on with the public, but most investigators refer to them as “squatches.”» —“Bigfoot is one big deal” by Robb Lucas in Manistique Daily Press (Escanaba, Michigan) July 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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