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- noun Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of
hippopotamus
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"Grandfather laughed at me because I didn't say 'hippotamus' right – I called it a 'nippotamus,' and he made me say 'hi-hi-hip,' and that's got me into the way of saying it to everything, like calling a negg, a hegg."
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Other mammals include forest elephant Loxodonta africana cyclotis (EN), estimated at 3,250 individuals in 1989, now reduced for their meat and ivory from 350 to 2 families, hippotamus Hippopotamus amphibious, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, leopard Panthera pardus, forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bongo Tragelaphus euryceros and seven species of duiker, all taken for food.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2009
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Another report noted total destruction of the Park's hippotamus population and decimation of buffalo and antelopes.
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Christmas shoes the abolute worst just below the hippotamus song Another ass kickin should be administered to that crazy minx brotonDecember 21st, 2005
Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Worst Christmas Songs Ever 2006
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The ends are placed on to chairs, the water put in, and you get in and hippotamus and take a complete bath from Dan to Beersheba in a tea cup full of water.
whichbe commented on the word hippotamus
Misspelling of hippopotamus.
December 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word hippotamus
Put this animal back in the river Po right now!
September 7, 2009