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Bandicoot. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bandicoot Also 9 -icoote, -ycoot. [corruption of Telugu pandi-kokku, lit. ‘pig-rat’ (Col. Yule).]

1   1.  A large Indian rat (Mus malabaricus or giganteus), as big as a cat, and very destructive. (Wrongly used in quot. 1789 for the Musk-rat.)

2 1789.  Munro, Narrat., 32. The Bandicoot, or musk rat, is another troublesome animal … from its offensive smell.

3 1813.  J. Forbes, Orient. Mem., III. 41. Bandicoote rat[s] frequently undermine ware houses and destroy every kind of merchandise.

4 1860.  Tennent, Ceylon, I. 150. Another favourite article of food with the coolies is the pig-rat or Bandicoot.

5   2.  A genus of insectivorous Australian marsupials (Parameles), somewhat resembling the above.

6 1831.  Tyerman & Bennet, Voy. & Trav., II. xxxvi. 149. The dogs also worried a bandy-coot … an animal … with a head and tail resembling those of a rat, and a pouch under the belly for the reception of its young.

7 1839.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., III. 260/2. Marsupials commonly known in Australia by the name of Bandicoots.

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