walrusineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

walrusine

1. Walruslike, particularly in size.
   • 1994, Surfer:

     All things being equal, I'd rather face some grumpy, walrusine "owner" at the Ranch than an Xray and sigmoidoscope at gunpoint . Here is the world's Last Great Reserve of temperate climate surf, virtually untapped from Lambert's […]

   • 2002 January 8, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 138:

     Most decidedly present is one Olaf Gustafson Jr., walrusine president of Gustafson and Son Construction, with two pinstriped attorneys and one herringboned accountant. Off her father's starboard side is the critically pale Olaffe […]

   • 2003 December 15, John Decure, Bluebird Rising: A Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 186:

     On the tube, Deidre said, “Back to you, Phil,” and was replaced by a walrusine weatherman with a handlebar mustache and a grin shaped like a quarter wedge of watermelon.

   • 2014 April 10, C.W. Thornton, Mommer 'n' Diddy What Live Next Door, First Edition Design Pub., →ISBN, page 64:

     ... walrusine voice, which I hears way more than I sees his gelatinous frame. Yet the voice lack effect, 'cause nobody ever do what he say. They's gruntin' and groanin' and dogfood-stool. They's Pringles can face and apple juice sticky.

   • 2020 July 21, Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

     He was a mustachioed, walrusine guy in his forties with a tag that read “Tallman.” She turned to look back inside the van, back doors half-open and the inside of the van shrouded in shadow. She turned back toward them.