walrus

noun

1. 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.

2. 2

   informalA man with a walrus moustache.

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

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

verb

1. 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.

2. 2

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

   Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat

3. 3

   To be like a walrus To hang like a walrus's moustache

   His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth

4. 4

   To be like a walrus 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.

Forms

plural

walruses, walrusses, walri, walrii

past tense

walrused, walrussed

past participle

walrused, walrussed

present participle

walrusing, walrussing

third person singular

walruses, walrusses