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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete form of porpoise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A porpoise.

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  • “‘porkpisce’ (Spenser), that is sea-hog, or more accurately hogfish {58} will be ‘porpesse’, and then ‘porpoise’, as it is now.”

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‘porpesse’ has been looked up 148 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.