guyanosa

English

Noun

guyanosa (plural guyanosas)

1. Alternative form of guyascutus
   • 1849, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:

     There were two moose, three black bears, one 'woolly horse,' some twenty deer, seven panthers, two foxes, four gaunt wolves, one 'prock', one 'guyanosa,' and a young Penobscot ice-breaker.

   • 1853, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 7, page 709:

     Before proceeding to exhibit the animals, the lecturer dwelt at some length upon the characteristics of each; and describing, especially, the ravenous nature of the Guyanosa, and his enormous strength.

   • 1951, Mitford McLeod Mathews, A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles:

     The story of the guyanosa or guyascutus (see Knickerbocker Mag. XXVIII. 36-38 and Harper's Mag. VII. 708-709) tells of somesharpers who sold tickets to the public to see this strange and savage animal.

   • 1982 -, Richard Mercer Dorson, Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, page 25:

     In Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1853, from the Editor's Drawer, appeared a particularly impressive version that joined the Guyanosa with another favorite American myth-beast, here called the Prock.