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Snuffleupagus

Snuffleupagus proper noun: a fictional character from the television series Sesame Street, resembling a woolly mammoth without tusks, who until the show's 17th season was only visible to Big Bird.

Proper noun

Snuffleupagus

  1. A fictional character from the television series Sesame Street, resembling a woolly mammoth without tusks, who until the show's 17th season was only visible to Big Bird.
    • CFIDS, even bigger than a medical giraffe, is almost like Sesame Street’s elusive giant puppet Snuffleupagus—witnessed only by believers.2000, Peggy Munson, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    • Like Big Bird’s Snuffleupagus, Ryan’s “girlfriend” is vividly described, but never seen.2001, Ryan Bigge, A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex and the Single Guy

Forms of Snuffleupagus

alternative formMr. Snuffleupagus

Origin of Snuffleupagus

As a mammoth-like creature, he has a long trunk like an elephant's, which is called his snuffle.

Questions about Snuffleupagus

What does Snuffleupagus mean?
Snuffleupagus means a fictional character from the television series Sesame Street, resembling a woolly mammoth without tusks, who until the show's 17th season was only visible to Big Bird.
What part of speech is Snuffleupagus?
Snuffleupagus is a proper noun.

Words near Snuffleupagus in the dictionary

  1. snuffled
  2. snuffler
  3. snufflers
  4. snuffles
  5. snuffless
  6. Snuffleupagus
  7. snufflier
  8. snuffliest
  9. snuffliness
  10. snuffling
  11. snufflingly

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