Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammals such as the elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thick-skinned, as a member of the Pachydermata. Also pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermous.
- noun A non-ruminant hoofed quadruped; any member of the old order Pachydermata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the
elephant ,rhinoceros , andhippopotamus , one of the Pachydermata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone (or something) with thick skin. It is used for animals such as an
elephant or ahippopotamus . - noun zoology A member of the obsolete
taxonomic group Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as therhinoceros ,hippopotamus ,elephant ,pig andhorse . - noun informal An
elephant - noun idiomatic A person that is not affected by (does not care about) what others say about him or her.
- noun idiomatic Someone who is insensitive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The paper said the pachyderm is estimated to be 18 years old and is the fifth white elephant captured since 2001.
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'Dismissing constitutional checks and balances, which cannot resist it or deflect its course, the presidential pachyderm is spurred only by forces that stand outside institutions -- the media and the street.'
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To be in politics, a person is better off, bein 'called a pachyderm, rather than a weasel.
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For example, "Elephants" actually features brass recalling a pachyderm call, accompanied by string screeches sounding like wayward seabirds.
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Googling "pachyderm" repeatedly and not getting the desired result.
Niles's Blog 2008
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Just the horn of an irascible, endangered pachyderm.
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Just the horn of an irascible, endangered pachyderm.
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Although I have to say, at risk of losing my status as a sycophant (and when did a term for crazy members of the pachyderm family become the descriptor for a slavish follower? ba-dum-bum) that the "if I'm pissing people off on both sides of an issue then I must be right" ain't necessarily so.
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BBB when you can show me something in the asinus or pachyderm bill that shows where government is forcing doctors to work for a government run health care operation to provide public health care services you are just parroting things you have heard.
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Jwest, a pachyderm sleeping on the job doesnt call the shots.
Think Progress » Inhofe trying to get Bunning to end filibuster so highway funding doesn’t expire. 2010
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