Reverse Dictionary: MONSTER

NOUNS
► AFANC in Welsh mythology: an aquatic monster; also, an otter or beaver identified as such a monster → 1573
► BELUE a great beast, a monster; a sea-monster, a whale → 1474 obs.
► BILCH a monster → Bk1898 Sc.
► BILF a term of contempt for a pursy person; a monster → 1911 Sc.  (Bk.)
► BLACK PARR an imaginary monster → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOOGERBOO ► BOOGIEBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BOWSE ► BOWSIE a huge, misshapen, hairy monster, used to frighten children → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUGABO ► BUGABOO ► BUGABO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil → 1787 Amer. dial.
► CATAWAMPUS ► CATTYWAMPUS an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin → 1843 Amer. dial.
► COCKATRICE a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, commonly said to be hatched by a serpent (or toad) from the egg of a cockerel or rooster; later, more generally: a mythical monster combining, or resulting from the combination of, a cockerel or rooster and a serpent (occasionally, another animal) → a1382
► DANCHY an imaginary animal or monster used to frighten children → 1969 Amer. dial.
► GLAWACKUS an imaginary monster → 1939 Amer. dial.
► GODAPHRO an imaginary monster → 1939 Amer. logging usage
► GOGMAGOG a monster, a frightful apparition → 19C sl.
► GOWROW a fabulous monster → 1935 Amer. dial.
► HURLPOOL a whale or monster → 1553 obs.
► JIMPLECUTE an imaginary monster → 1867 Amer. dial.
► KRAKEN a mythical sea-monster of enormous size, said to have been seen at times off the coast of Norway → 1755
► LAMIA a fabulous monster supposed to have the body of woman and to prey upon human beings and suck the blood of children; also, a witch, a she-demon → 1382
► LEEDS DEVIL an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin → 1939 Amer. dial.
► LEEDS’S GHOST an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin → 1945 Amer. dial.
► MAHOUND a monster; a hideous creature → c1400 obs.
► MONSTRICIDE the killing of a monster → 1859 obs.
► MOONCALF a congenitally formed animal; a monster → 1565 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
► ONBEAST a monster; a ravenous animal, a frightening bird or animal → 1768 Sc.
► SWAMP WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin → 1965 Amer. dial.
► TADY-WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin → 1965 Amer. dial.
► TERATOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of monsters or giving birth to a monster → 1991 (Bk.)
► UNBEAST a wild beast; a monster; a ravenous or vile animal → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► WAMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin → 1878 Amer. dial.
► WAMPUS CAT an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin → 1913 Amer. dial.
► WAMPUS KITTY an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin → 1954 Amer. dial.
► WHIFFENPOOF ► WHIFFENPUFF ► WIFFENPOOF an imaginary animal or monster; an animal that cannot be named → 1922 Amer. dial.
► WHISTLING WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin → 1950 Amer. dial.
► WHOMPUS  ► WHOMPUS CAT ► WOMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin → 1878 Amer. dial.
► YOWIE a mythical Australian monster → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)