English Explanatory Dictionary

gazeka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fictional cryptid said to have been seen on Papua New Guinea in the early twentieth century, resembling a tapir or giant sloth.

Word forms

gazeka gazekas

Etymology

Coined by its inventor, the English comic actor George Graves (1876-1949), who introduced it as a bit of by-play in the musical The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre, London, in 1905.

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