Noun: grampus
| Singular | grampus |
| Plural | grampuses |
Sample Sentences
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Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses. [1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 3, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:]
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The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
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‘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.’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.] [1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:]
Nouns inflected like grampus
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Latin Nouns '
crassus'.
Verbs referencing "grampus"
Dutch Nouns
gramper.