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- noun A
fictional cryptid said to have been seen onPapua New Guinea in the early twentieth century, resembling atapir or giantsloth .
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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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