✅ Bigfoot is the name for a large and extremely hairy humanlike cryptid, which is said to live mostly in the wilderness of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest (My friend says he saw Bigfoot at the skatepark).
✅ Sasquatch is the name for the same creature in First Nations legend. Its name comes from a word in Mainland Halkomelem, a language spoken by Coast Salish peoples (There are many stories of Sasquatch-like creatures).
✅ The names Bigfoot and Sasquatch are often used interchangeably, but Bigfoot is a more recent term, having been coined in 1958 when large, humanlike footprints were reportedly discovered.
✅ Equivocate means to use unclear language, generally to mislead or avoid commitment (She equivocated rather than giving me an answer).
✅ Tergiversate means to change your mind a lot and go back and forth on a cause or subject, particularly in a way that ends up being unclear or means you avoid commitment (He was known for tergiversating in order to cause delays).
✅ Equivocate and tergiversate both mean to use vague language, often in a way that means avoiding a decision.
✅ However, tergiversate specifically suggests changing your opinion repeatedly, whereas equivocate suggests misleading people or hedging when you speak (She tended to tergiversate when she was nervous about a decision).
✅ A cat is a small domesticated animal but can also be slang for a person, particularly a man, a person who likes jazz music, or a woman who gossips in a spiteful way (The cat drank milk from a saucer; I’ll see you cats later; She’s a nasty old cat).
✅ Grimalkin can refer to a cat—that is, the animal—especially an old and bad-tempered one. It can also refer to a similarly old and bad-tempered woman (The grimalkin by the fire hissed at me, and her owner, the grimalkin that had let me in, seemed likely to hiss back).
✅ Cat and grimalkin are both slang words that are pretty outdated, and both suggest an unpleasant woman. However, cat can also be used to refer to a man, similar to the word guy.