walrus

UK /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/ US /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/
verb 4noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.

Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.

2

A man with a walrus moustache.

You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?

One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.

verb

1

To hunt walruses

It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.

2

To be like a walrus

Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat

3

To be like a walrus

His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth

4

To be like a walrus

Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.

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