grampus
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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
It was my first visit to Sydney since her marriage, and I enjoyed myself much, and threw off my cough, and could get up stairs without blowing like a grampus.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
He dashed along beside the wall of the building—and after him lunged Regan, grunting like a grampus, a threat in every grunt.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Thresh′el, a flail; Thresh′er, the fox-shark; Thresh′er-whale, the grampus.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crouched on a small projection near the water's edge was a seal, trying to evade the eyes of a dozen large grampuses which were playing about near our stern.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
“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
The second side-course—miocene—was out of course, flesh after fowl: marine mammalia,—seals, grampuses, and whales, served up with sea- weed on their flanks, hearts and kidneys deviled, and fins and flippers friccasied.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Listen to me, darlint, and don't mind them stupid grampuses.
From The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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