Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person, animal, or object believed to bring good luck, especially one kept as the symbol of an organization such as a sports team.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thing supposed to bring good luck to its possessor; a person whose presence is supposed to be a cause of good fortune.
- Of the nature of a mascot; having luck-bringing qualities; lucky: as, mascot snakes; a mascot dog or goat.
Wiktionary
- n. something thought to bring good luck
- n. something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs.
- n. Anything that brings good luck; especially, an animal kept by a group, as a sports team, to serve as a symbol and to bring luck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
Etymologies
- From French mascotte from Provençal mascoto meaning sortilege. (Wiktionary)
- French mascotte, sorcerer's charm, mascot, from Provençal mascoto, sorcery, fetish, from masco, witch, ultimately from Medieval Latin masca, mask, specter, witch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Stanford Cardinal (their mascot is a tree – meaning they only scare the minions of Isengard)”
College Mascots: Inspiring to Insipid | Heretical Ideas Magazine
“Reading up on Uga on wikipedia, the mascot is air conditioned and sits on bags of ice at games because the breed is susceptible to heart stroke.”
“I think it has something to do with the fact that their mascot is a sock monkey.”
“But don't dare suggest that being a mascot is among the worst job in sports.”
“Pine they got what they call a mascot, bein 'a tame b'ar; an' up at”
“BTW, the term mascot was never applied to The Chief except by those attempting to disparage his image. ”
“The newly elected mascot is the Rebel Black Bear, a cuddly man-sized bear who will wear a variety of costumes.”
“The mascot is always a student who wins the role through tryouts.”
“The Horned Frogs are legit and their mascot is freaking sweet!”
“Their official mascot is the bulldog, which probably puts them in the D-F grade range.”
College Mascots: Inspiring to Insipid | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mascot’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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plutoman's list
fossick, rat's razoo, barmy, bohemian, talisman, tagada tsoin-tsoin, ponsonby, badugi, ombudsman, obfuscate, zombie, forgettory and 56 more...
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French Spelling Bee List
just putting some words on here for other peoples use..............and mine
peloton, pacifism, bureaucracy, mystique, dressage, denture, cachet, diplomat, foyer, rehearse, diorama, boudoir and 53 more...
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magpie's delight
various trinkets and shiny objects
pearl, tinfoil, clean car, marble, string, quarter, monocle, button, pocket watch, cellophane, ribbon, bead and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mascot.
vanishedone See /tags/candidate for wordie mascot, with the winner tagged /tags/official wordie mascot.
There's also /tags/candidate for wordie mascot 2009, but thus far it's been used only once. May 20, 2009
nuxiy We should get one of these for Wordie. Any suggestions? Perhaps someone could make a list of them. May 20, 2009
chained_bear What? Nobody listed this one already? Weird.
Thanks to sionnach for the suggestion! Oct 27, 2007