grass mud horse

noun

Etymology

A calque of the Mandarin 草泥馬/草泥马 (cǎonímǎ). See 草泥馬 for more.

Definitions

  1. One of the ten "mythical Baidu deities" invented by Chinese internet users for the…

    One of the ten "mythical Baidu deities" invented by Chinese internet users for the purpose of circumventing censorship. Usually depicted as resembling an alpaca, and is supposedly living in the Mahler Gobi desert.

    • A YouTube children’s song about the beast has drawn nearly 1.4 million viewers. A grass-mud horse cartoon has logged a quarter million more views. A nature documentary on its habits attracted 180,000 more.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA