gyascutus

English

Noun

gyascutus (plural gyascutuses)

1. Alternative form of guyascutus
   • 1871, Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics; Volume 27, page 299:

     The howling gyascutus, ladies and gentlemen!” calls one of the junior managers from a stage at the upper end of the hall,—“ the howling gyascutus l " he proclaims, leading out what seems to be a hairy quadruped, with very thick and long hind legs and very short fore ones.

   • 1907, John Ames Mitchell, Life - Volume 50, page 270:

     Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.

   • 1965, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A treasury of New England folklore:

     DURING my boyhood on a Vermont farm the gyascutus or cute cuss, was not a rare barnyard animal.

   • 1978, James L. W. West, Gyascutus: Studies in Antebellum Southern Humorous and Sporting Writing, →ISBN, page 9:

     The Gyascutus came in three-toed and five-toed varieties; a cloven-hoofed edition was even known to exist in some regions of the South.