Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the hippopotamus; hence, figuratively, ponderous.
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Examples
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You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass.
J.D.’s Top 10 Favorite Romantic Comedies » Scene-Stealers 2008
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When a shot is fired into a sleeping herd, all start up on their feet, and stare with peculiar stolid looks of hippopotamic surprise, and wait for another shot before dashing into deep water.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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When a shot is fired into a sleeping herd, all start up on their feet, and stare with peculiar stolid looks of hippopotamic surprise, and wait for another shot before dashing into deep water.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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For in loving his own children he is doing something which is (if I may use the phrase) far more essentially hippopotamic than dandling hippopotami; he is doing as they do.
The Boy's Own Paper 2009
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