tanuki
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/təˈnʊkɪ/
(UK)
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/təˈnʊkɪ/ (UK) · /tɑˈnuki/ (US) · /ˈtɑnuki/ (US)
Definition of tanuki
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.
“At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.”
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noun
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A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.
“At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.”
- (Japanese)A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.
- The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).
Anagrams of tanuki
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