bandicoot

Borrowed from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændiˌkut/

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

1. A small Australian marsupial with a distinctive long snout, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).
2. Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.

• pig-footed bandicoot
• southern brown bandicoot

bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)

1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing vegetables from a garden

“bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020., “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022..

Unadapted borrowing from English bandicoot, in turn borrowed from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku).

bandicoot m (plural bandicoots)

1. bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)