"gazeka" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: gazekas [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} gazeka (plural gazekas)
  1. A fictional cryptid said to have been seen on Papua New Guinea in the early twentieth century, resembling a tapir or giant sloth. Wikipedia link: gazeka Categories (topical): Cryptozoology

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