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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A porpoise or some similar cetacean.
- n. The dugong.
Examples
“Pay close attention to the breathtaking very, very real and not at all Photoshopped photograph of a sea-pig in action and the description of its sea-truffle-finding, which is useful if, like me, you were wondering exactly what sort of food they are digging up from beneath the ocean floor.”
“This is no Babe-like friendly fuzzy sea-pig, this is a big damn Hannibal pig that will eat your face.”
“The sea-pig definitely needs to stop sitting around eating Hot Pockets...”
“Also, you can find a contemporary, learned text on the sea-pig here.”
“I'll settle matters with you later on for meddling in this affair, you kelp-haired sea-pig.”
“Close inshore a porpoise is wallowing, like the jolly sea-pig that he is, in his berth of glistening water.”
“{58} [Compare French _marsouin_ (= German _meer-schwein_), “sea-pig”, the dolphin; Breton _mor-houc’h_; Irish _mucc mara_, “pig of the sea”, the dolphin (W. Stokes, _Irish Glossaries_, p. 118); French _truye de mer_ (Cotgrave); old English _brun-swyne_ (_Prompt.”
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