bandicoot

== English == (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “bandicoot rat image”) === Etymology === Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈbændiˌkut/ === Noun === bandicoot (plural bandicoots) Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted) (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed. ==== References ==== bandicoot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “bandicoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020. , “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.. == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bandicoot, in turn borrowed from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku). === Pronunciation === === Noun === bandicoot m (plural bandicoots) bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)