Meaning of gyascutus | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The howling gyascutus, ladies and gentlemen!” calls one of the junior managers from a stage⟳ at the upper end⟳ of the hall,—“ the howling gyascutus l " he proclaims, leading out what seems to be a hairy quadruped, with very thick and long hind legs and very short fore ones.”

“Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call⟳ a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell⟳ you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture⟳ because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.”

“DURING my boyhood on a Vermont farm the gyascutus or cute cuss, was not a rare barnyard animal.”

“The Gyascutus came in three-toed and five-toed varieties; a cloven-hoofed edition was even known to exist⟳ in some regions of the South.”

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