bandicoot

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English

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Model of a bandicoot

Etymology

Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of the Asian murids, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.

Pronunciation

Noun

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

  1. Any of various small Australian marsupials with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).
  2. Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.
    Synonym: bandicoot rat

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Verb

bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)

  1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

References

“bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020., “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022..

Portuguese

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bandicoot, in turn borrowed from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈku.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈku.te/

Noun

bandicoot m (plural bandicoots)

  1. bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)
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