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語源

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native 古期英語 horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈwoːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈwɔl.ɾəs/
• ハイフネーション: wal‧rus

名詞

walrus (plural walruses or walrus or (uncommon) walrusses or (both, nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon and often humorous) walri or walrii)

1. A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.

   Synonyms: sea horse (walrus sense, rare), morse (walrus sense, obsolete)

   Hypernyms: pinniped < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow pinnipeds) seal, true seal, earless seal, phocid, eared seal, otariid, sea lion, fur seal; (other fellow marine mammals) sea cow, sirenian, manatee, dugong, sea hog, sea pig, seaswine, cetacean, whale, porpoise, dolphin

   • 1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251:

     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. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A man with a walrus moustache.
   • 2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145:

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

   • 2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War:

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

引用

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:walrus.

派生語

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: waleluka
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਾਲਰਸ (vālras)

  Shahmukhi script: والرس (vālras)

• → Welsh: walrws

動詞

walrus (third-person singular simple present walruses or (uncommon) walrusses, present participle walrusing or (uncommon) walrussing, simple past and past participle walrused or (uncommon) walrussed)

1. To hunt walruses
   • 2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985:

     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. To be like a walrus
   1. To move dragging one's belly along the floor
      • 2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel:

        Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat

   2. To hang like a walrus's moustache
      • 2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue:

        His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth

   3. To be prominent, like tusks
      • 2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill:

        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.