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  • 1. porpoise
  • Rhymes with Porpoise
  • Pronounce Porpoise
  • Porpoise in a sentence
  • Quotes about Porpoise
Table of Contents
  • 1. porpoise
  • Rhymes with Porpoise
  • Pronounce Porpoise
  • Porpoise in a sentence
  • Quotes about Porpoise
Synonyms
Etymology

1. porpoise

noun. ['ˈpɔrpəs'] any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth.

Synonyms

  • dolphin
  • Phocoena phocoena
  • Phocoena
  • Phocoena sinus
  • genus Phocoena
  • vaquita
  • harbor porpoise

Etymology

  • porpeys (Middle English (1100-1500))

Rhymes with Porpoise

  • corpus

How do you pronounce porpoise?

Pronounce porpoise as ˈpɔrpəs.

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Sentences with porpoise


1. Verb, base form
To porpoise, they swim so rapidly that they rise up from the surface of the water.

Quotes about porpoise


1. He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
- T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

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