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Added 10 October 2026

walrus

/ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about walrus at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
A man with a walrus moustache.

verb

To hunt walruses
To be like a walrus To move dragging one's belly along the floor To hang like a walrus's moustache To be prominent, like tusks
To move dragging one's belly along the floor

Origin

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

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