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elephanty

elephanty adjective: resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

Adjective

elephanty (comparative more elephanty, superlative most elephanty)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
    • ‘The elephant is from a drawing of Rembrandt’s, & I thought it would interest you as being both elephanty & Rembrandty — full of the characteristic qualities of each.[…]’ SCC to PSW, 27 October 1902, BL Add 52761, f. 52.1902 October 27, John Aplin, editor, The Letters of Philip Webb, volumes III (1899–1902), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 312
    • […] I stop the car in front of this little hotel some fellow has just put up in town and which is called the “Elephant Castle”. There is nothing elephanty about it except that it is all round and nice so I reckon that the fellow was thinking about the elephant’s foot but not an elephant house.1986, Charles Mangua, Son of Woman in Mombasa, Spear Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 208

Examples of elephanty in a sentence

  • And one of the things that elephants have to do, in addition to eating and drinking and being all elephanty, is to have a poo once in a while.2013, Philip Ardagh, The Grunts All at Sea, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:
  • Sort of elephanty eyes in a wrinkled old face, with short grey hair, a grubby safari shirt and a leathery wide-brimmed hat that looks a hundred years old.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Sceptre, →ISBN:
  • The thought of the green elephant occurred in my brain, but only looks green and elephanty to the thinker (me).2018, Daniel Cardinal, Gerald Jones, Jeremy Hayward, AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2: Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, Hodder...
  • He gave a proud, elephanty bow and set the umbrella down.2019, Rivka Galchen, Rat Rule 79: An Adventure, Restless Books, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms of elephanty

comparativemore elephanty
superlativemost elephanty

Origin of elephanty

From elephant + -y.

Questions about elephanty

What does elephanty mean?
Elephanty means resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
How do you use elephanty in a sentence?
And one of the things that elephants have to do, in addition to eating and drinking and being all elephanty, is to have a poo once in a while.
What part of speech is elephanty?
Elephanty is an adjective.

Words near elephanty in the dictionary

  1. elephants in the room
  2. elephants' ear
  3. elephants' ears
  4. elephants' graveyard
  5. elephants' graveyards
  6. elephanty
  7. elepidote
  8. elepidotes
  9. Elermore Vale
  10. eles
  11. elesclomol

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