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grampus

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7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted agmprsuStarts with GEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas

Word origin

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).

Used in a sentence

  • Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.
  • The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.
  • ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

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