walrusine

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adjective

Walruslike, particularly in size.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjective
  1. Walruslike, particularly in size.

    On the tube, Deidre said, “Back to you, Phil,” and was replaced by a walrusine weatherman with a handlebar mustache and a grin shaped like a quarter wedge of watermelon.

    2003 December 15, John Decure, Bluebird Rising: A Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 186
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    All things being equal, I'd rather face some grumpy, walrusine "owner" at the Ranch than an Xray and sigmoidoscope at gunpoint . Here is the world's Last Great Reserve of temperate climate surf, virtually untapped from Lambert's[…]

    1994, Surfer

    Most decidedly present is one Olaf Gustafson Jr., walrusine president of Gustafson and Son Construction, with two pinstriped attorneys and one herringboned accountant. Off her father's starboard side is the critically pale Olaffe[…]

    2002 January 8, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 138

    ... walrusine voice, which I hears way more than I sees his gelatinous frame. Yet the voice lack effect, 'cause nobody ever do what he say. They's gruntin' and groanin' and dogfood-stool. They's Pringles can face and apple juice sticky.

    2014 April 10, C.W. Thornton, Mommer 'n' Diddy What Live Next Door, First Edition Design Pub., →ISBN, page 64

    He was a mustachioed, walrusine guy in his forties with a tag that read “Tallman.” She turned to look back inside the van, back doors half-open and the inside of the van shrouded in shadow. She turned back toward them.

    2020 July 21, Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN

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