walrus

plural walruses · plural uncommon walrusses · humorous nonstandard often plural proscribed uncommon walri · plural walrii

1. 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, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251

   Synonyms: sea horse, morse, sea morse

2. derogatoryinformalsometimesA man with a walrus moustache.

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

   2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145

   1 more example

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

   2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War

present singular third person walruses · present singular third person uncommon walrusses · participle present walrusing · participle present uncommon walrussing · participle past walrused · past walrused · participle past uncommon walrussed · past uncommon walrussed

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.

   2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985

2. To be like a walrus
   1. To move dragging one's belly along the floor

      Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat

      2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel

   2. To hang like a walrus's moustache

      His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth

      2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue

   3. 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, Robert Buettner, Overkill