Or yeti; Legendary creature, said to resemble a human, with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish gray hair. Reports of its existence in the Himalayas have been made since 1832, and they gained substance from a published photograph of a huge footprint in the snow in 1951. No further “evidence” has been found.
Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas; SYN. yeti.
A mysterious creature with human or apelike characteristics reported to exist in the high Himalayas — called also yeti