Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. elephant
Etymologies
- From Middle English oliphaunt, olifaunt, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus; see elephant for more information. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Balrog and oliphaunt fossils have been discovered, but misidentified by ideologically biased Darwinists as “dinosaurs.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings
“And out place under the warm bank in Captain Faramir's country, the day I saw an oliphaunt?”
“The foyer had a scuffed linoleum floor, an oliphaunt-foot umbrella stand, and a side-table with short stacks of medical brochures for chlamydia, AIDS, evil eye, and diarrhea.”
“Then there was the oliphaunt, this time not treated as an elephant, but as a four-tusked mastodon - probably a species of trilophodon or similar.”
“It is carved from the tusks of Old Mlima, the oliphaunt who bore my great-great-grandfather to war against the Tigrati insurrection.”
“‘And our place under the warm bank in Captain Faramir’s country, the day I saw an oliphaunt?’”
“Sick kids, perhaps, but if we’re talking cool spectacle here, we might as well go whole hog, er, tusker, er, oliphaunt. maria”
Going Different Directions in the Same Space - The Panda's Thumb
““Tifari Amu told me; it’s how they hunt oliphaunt.”
““Joscelin, if you need to test your skills, pick something that’s not nearly the size of an oliphaunt, with hide like cured leather.”
“But now I don’t suppose I’ll ever see an oliphaunt.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oliphaunt’.
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 252 more...
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Animals With Nifty Names
hamster, gerbil, ferret, horse, skink, newt, shark, octopus, weasel, panda, giraffe, hyena and 129 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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ever onward...
being words, terms, names of people and places, and other items from Lord of the Rings, not limited to those which are unique to Middle-Earth, and in no particular order.
hobbit, elf, man, ent, wizard, oliphaunt, nazgul, wraith, dwarf, ithildin, mithril, sindarin and 77 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oliphaunt.
she OED says it's a Middle English variant spelling. :)
(That's a wonderful name! If you don't actually resemble an elephant.) Aug 6, 2008
dontcry My first French teacher's name was Madame Oliphant. Seriously. Aug 6, 2008
chained_bear See also oliphant. Aug 6, 2008