irrelephant
irrelephant adjective: not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.
Adjective
irrelephant (comparative more irrelephant, superlative most irrelephant)
- Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.
- Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about.1930, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, & George S. Kaufman, Animal Crackers, 00:49:33-00:49:58
- It was no fluke that the best of elephant-joke books — 101 Elephant Jokes — was written by Robert Blake, fourteen, who ran the following warning at the beginning of his work: "Practically no parents will think elephant jokes are funny."
But all of this is quite irrelephant; bring on the jokes.1984, Paul Dickson, Jokes: Outrageous Bits, Atrocious Puns, and Ridiculous Routines for Those Who Love Jests, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 57
Forms of irrelephant
| comparative | more irrelephant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most irrelephant |
Origin of irrelephant
Blend of irrelevant + elephant.
Questions about irrelephant
- What does irrelephant mean?
- Irrelephant means not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.
- What part of speech is irrelephant?
- Irrelephant is an adjective.
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