"Bigfootologist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977 October 24, Ralph Sumner, “Peace Valley Views: Valley Gets First Arrivals For Winter”, in The Tampa Tribune, 83rd year, number 253, Tampa, Fla., page 2, columns 1–2",
          "text": "A Peace River Valley Bigfootologist has come up with a suggestion as to the whereabouts of Polk County’s mysterious ape-man or Florida Swampman after it eludes hunters and searchers just like it did earlier this month in the Green Swamp. […] The Bigfootologists said undoubtedly the mysterious ape-man-like creature hid in the huge underground “faults” or cavities or spaces beneath the ground.",
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          "ref": "1981 March 8, Jim Marrs, “It seems that we’ve all been myth-taken”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, page 7D",
          "text": "When Wylie sticks to describing these people and their habitats, he can be quite effective. But when he strikes out and tries to explain their motivations, he often gets into the same murky pseudo-scientific areas as the more fervent Bigfootologists.",
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          "ref": "2016, Bryan Sykes, “The Government Laboratory”, in Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen, Disinformation Books, part II, pages 230–231",
          "text": "She was also the one who pointed out that when she had been unable to positively identify a hair sample, the Bigfootologist would twist this to imply that it was from an unidentified animal. This was such a frequent and irritating corruption of her opinion that she stopped trying to help Bigfootologists many years ago.",
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        "A person who looks for evidence of the existence of Bigfoot."
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        "(uncommon, cryptozoology) A person who looks for evidence of the existence of Bigfoot."
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          "word": "bigfootologist"
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      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "cryptozoology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
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          "ref": "1977 October 24, Ralph Sumner, “Peace Valley Views: Valley Gets First Arrivals For Winter”, in The Tampa Tribune, 83rd year, number 253, Tampa, Fla., page 2, columns 1–2",
          "text": "A Peace River Valley Bigfootologist has come up with a suggestion as to the whereabouts of Polk County’s mysterious ape-man or Florida Swampman after it eludes hunters and searchers just like it did earlier this month in the Green Swamp. […] The Bigfootologists said undoubtedly the mysterious ape-man-like creature hid in the huge underground “faults” or cavities or spaces beneath the ground.",
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          "ref": "1981 March 8, Jim Marrs, “It seems that we’ve all been myth-taken”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, page 7D",
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          "text": "She was also the one who pointed out that when she had been unable to positively identify a hair sample, the Bigfootologist would twist this to imply that it was from an unidentified animal. This was such a frequent and irritating corruption of her opinion that she stopped trying to help Bigfootologists many years ago.",
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