grampus

He continues: “Water dog, grampus, grumpus, mollyhugger, horny head, devil dog.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

It h a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

But a grampus is a cetacean, and that is the family to which whales belong.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch

The governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the cook was not long in discovering the futility of his efforts and gave up the chase, puffing and blowing like a grampus.

From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Homer Randall

Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the porpoises, grampuses, &c., they are united into a single crescentic opening.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Round and round the ring they went, both of them puffing and blowing like grampuses.

From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

What's that among a tribe o' such grampuses?

From Diana by Susan Warner

“Why, it’s only a shoal of grampuses following each other in single file, that we’ve mistaken for one creature!”

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne