Associations to the word «Porpoise»

Pictures for the word «Porpoise»

Wiktionary

PORPOISE, noun. A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to whales and dolphins.
PORPOISE, noun. (North America) (imprecisely) Any small dolphin.
PORPOISE, verb. (intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing.

Dictionary definition

PORPOISE, noun. Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope