Sekirov Dictionary

walrus

UK /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/US /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 8

verb5

To be like a walrus
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To hang like a walrus's moustache
- His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth — 2000
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To be prominent, like tusks
- 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. — 2011
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To move dragging one's belly along the floor
- Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat — 2020
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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. — 2016

noun2

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A large Arctic pinniped 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. — 1887
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(informal, offensive) A man with a walrus moustache.
- You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off? — 2008

forms

walrused · walrussed · walrusing · walrussing · walruses · walrusses · walri · walrii

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