porpoisen.

Brit.

/ˈpɔːpəs/, U.S.

/ˈpɔrpəs/

Forms:

α. late Middle English porpais, late Middle English porpays, late Middle English porpeyse, late Middle English porpys, late Middle English–1500s porpas, late Middle English–1500s porpes, late Middle English–1700s porpos, late Middle English– porpus (now English regional), late Middle English–1500s porpasse, 1500s pork pisce, 1500s porpyse, 1500s porpyshe, 1500s–1600s porpose, 1500s–1800s porpesse, 1500s– porpoise, 1600s porpaise, 1600s porpiece, 1600s porpisce, 1600s porpise, 1600s porpoce, 1600s porpois, 1600s porpuis, 1600s porpuise, 1600s–1700s porpess, 1600s–1700s porpice, 1800s porpass; Scottish pre-1700 porpas, pre-1700 porpays, pre-1700 porpois, pre-1700 porpoys, 1700s– porpoise.

β. late Middle English pourpays, late Middle English purpaysse, late Middle English purpeys, late Middle English purpois, late Middle English purpoys, late Middle English–1500s purpays, late Middle English–1500s purpose, 1600s purpesse, 1700s purpoise (Scottish).

γ. late Middle English perpes.

δ. 1500s porkepes, 1500s porkepisce, 1500s porkpis, 1500s–1600s porcpisce, 1500s–1600s porkpisce, 1600s porcipize, 1600s porcpis, 1600s porc'pisce, 1600s porcpise, 1600s porcupice, 1600s porcupisce, 1600s porcupise, 1600s porquepice.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French porpoise; Latin porcopiscis.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman porpés, porpoise, pourpas, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French porpais, pourpois, Old French porpois, Anglo-Norman and Middle French porpeis, Middle French pourpais (11th cent.; French regional (Guernsey) pourpeis , (Jersey) pourpais ) and (in δ. forms) its etymon post-classical Latin porcopiscis, literally ‘hog-fish’ or ‘fish-hog’ (in an 8th-cent. glossary; 1265 in a British source as porcus piscis ) < classical Latin porcus pig (see pork n.¹) + piscis fish (see Pisces n. and adj.). Compare post-classical Latin porpasius , porpeisius , porpesius , porpiscis , porpiscus , purpasius (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources). Compare classical Latin porcus marīnus , literally ‘sea-hog’, perhaps denoting a shark (Pliny; < porcus pig + marīnus marine adj.), Italian porco marino (1361). Compare earlier mereswine n. and later marsouin n.Compare (denoting types of fish) Occitan peis pòrc, Italian pesce porco boar-fish, Catalan peix porco sucking-fish, ultimately from the same two elements in reverse order. Attested earlier as a surname, Walter Porpeis (1299), although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as reflecting the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. Compare the following earlier quotations, although it is unclear whether these show the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1309–10 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 7 1 porpas.1329 Acct. Chamberl. Scotl. (1771) 7 In emptione unius porpoys, 5 s.1400–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 603 Famulo..portanti 1 purpays.

a. Any of various small delphinoid whales of the family Phocoenidae, characterized by a blunt, rounded snout and usually a low, triangular dorsal fin; esp. (more fully common porpoise, harbour porpoise) Phocoena phocoena, which is black above and whitish below with a grey patch on the side, and inhabits northern seas. Also: the flesh of a porpoise as an article of food.Occasionally with unmarked plural.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise)

swineeOE

mereswineeOE

pellock1331

sea-swine1398

porpoisea1425

brownswinec1440

bassinatc1540

pollantine1558

sea-hog1580

hogfish1611

tursion1655

tumbler1694

sea-pig1826

snuffer1829

puffing pig1845

puff-pig1861

puffer1884

the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > miscellaneous members of

porpoisea1425

grampusa1529

marsouin1568

α.

a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 111 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 123 Porpeys in broth.

c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 81 (MED) In þe se we see many dyuerse kyndez of Fisches, Delphines & porpasez layke þam.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. H.i^v A young porpesse the whiche kynde of fisshe is nother praysyd in the olde testament nor in physycke.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. B3 Neither flesh nor fish as the Porpus.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 241 The Porpuisses..are made like the Dolphins.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 80 Wallowing Porpice sport and lord it in the flood.

a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 9 I neuer yet saw store of porposes playing, but soone a storme ensewed.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 6 A Porpess..taken with a Fish-gig above Malta.

1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Porpices..which delight in sporting and playing upon the waves.

1749 J. Hempstead Diary 7 July (1998) 517 They killed a Porpoise in ye River here yesterday with Guns Canoos & boats.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 329 There the porpess and the shark continue their depredations.

1807 J. R. Jewitt Jrnl. kept at Nootka Sound 6 When we sat down they put before us two large pieces of porpoise.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 193 The grand shoal..of which the arrival is announced by the number of its greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull, the shark, and the porpus.

1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 256 The Common Porpoise..is by far the most familiar Cetacean of our own and neighbouring coasts.

1909 Chatterbox 46/2 These fish..are greatly sought after by large fishes, such as the tunny and albacore, and also by porpoises.

1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vi. 89 They had a cheerful time chasing a wise old porpoise, who knew better than to come within harpoon range.

1997 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 14/8 Research is under way on an electronic ‘pinger’ device which can be fixed to nets to produce a sound that frightens porpoises away but this has not been fully developed.

β. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 427 Make the nombuls of purpoys.a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 166 Purpose rosted on coles.1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 11 Fro the see to you come Whales pourpays [Fr. Balainnes porc de mer].?1565 tr. Albertus Magnus Bk. Secretes sig. Ev Foca, purpays is a fysh wel ynough knowen.1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie vi. 28 The monsters of the sea..are ceals purposes, & such like.a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 290 There were also two purpoises or spout whailes that ran up the River of Ness.γ. ?a1500 in J. H. Parker & J. Parker Our Eng. Home (1960) 68 (MED) [At the marriage of Henry V the guests were treated with a] rostid perpes.δ. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 5 The uglye Seales and Porkepisces nowe too and fro dyd flote.1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B3 His heard Of stinking Seales and Porcpisces.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. iii. 739 A great dead fish, round like a Porcpis.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 67 A Sturgeon, a Sea-Calfe, a Porcipize.1661 O. Felltham Brief Char. Low-Countries 60 in Resolves (rev. ed.) They are the people that thrive and grow rich by war, like the Porcpisce, that playes in the storm.1678 J. Dryden All for Love iv. 47 Her Eunuch there! That Porcpisce bodes ill weather.a1718 R. O'Flaherty Chorogr. Descr. W. Connaught (1846) 105 Eighteen porcupices..were taken near Tombeola.

b. Chiefly Canadian. The beluga, Delphinapterus leucas. More fully white porpoise.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Monodontidae > genus Delphinapterus (white whale)

beluga1605

white whale1635

whitefish1792

porpoise1841

sea-canary1879

1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 10 A species of porpoise, very large, called bottle-noses by the sailors, is also very plentiful. This fish is of a white colour in the river St. Lawrence... How they become white is not known... Probably this is a fish of a different kind from either the porpoise or the bottle-nose.]

1841 R. H. Bonnycastle Canadas in 1841 II. vi. 126 The white porpoise is dazzlingly white, and I think it must be the delphinus apterus beluga, or white whale of the icy seas, as described by Pennant and Shaw.

1897 C. R. Tuttle Golden North 213 Mr. Spencer is developing a large porpoise, or white whale fishery, on the very shores of Churchill harbor, where, with his nets and traps, he took last season, one hundred and ninety of these mammals, of immense size.

1923 Beaver June 340/2 Indian reports were received that porpoises, or white whales, were..making excursions..up a certain creek.

1931 ‘R. Connor’ Rock & River 4 The ‘porpoises’ were thrashing the water in their furious chase on the shoals of herring and smaller fish that fled before them.

1949 Science 11 Feb. 143/1 The white whale or porpoise, Delphinapterus leucas,..was known to occur in large numbers in the St. Lawrence estuary.

1991 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 8 Sept. d7 Thoreau was enchanted by the ‘noble river’, the St. Lawrence, with its whales and white porpoises and remarkable waterfalls.

a. slang. to do a porpoise: (of a submarine) to execute a sharp, near-vertical dive.

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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine)

dive1872

submerge1903

crash-dive1928

to do a porpoise1929

snort1953

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 105 Porpoise, doing a, said when a submarine dives down nose first at a sharp angle.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 74 Doing a porpoise, said of a submarine taking a sharp dive.

b. Aeronautics colloquial. A bad landing in which an aircraft (esp. a seaplane) briefly touches down then rises again.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > bouncing or uneven

porpoising1911

ballooning1922

porpoise1931

bump1941

1931 Times 21 Aug. 7/1 It [sc. a seaplane] dropped back on to the water and then porpoised again, double the height of the first porpoise.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 119 Porpoise, an undesired landing in which the airplane bobs up and down like a porpoise playing in the waves, caused by landing on the nose gear first.

Compounds

† porpoise beef n. Obsolete

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1833 W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. 21 Jan. (1963) 97 Ate some porpoise beef at breakfast.

1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ iii. 19 Porpoise beef improves vastly by keeping.

porpoise dive v.

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1973 V. Canning Flight of Grey Goose vii. 138 He..took a deep breath, and porpoise-dived down, swimming strongly.

2002 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. He has to porpoise dive, and we are still in knee-deep water.

porpoise diving n.

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1905 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 9/2 The ‘Plunger’ was put through her paces at porpoise diving, ascending repeatedly to the surface, long enough to get her bearings, and immediately disappearing again.

1910 Chambers's Jrnl. June 368/1 Coming to the surface at intervals to sight, and then quickly sinking again. This operation is called by the Americans ‘porpoise diving’.

porpoise head n.

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1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351^v This cape may be easely knowen, by reason the rysynge of it is lyke a porpose hedde.

1974 Jrnl. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 56 659 (title) Sound transmission in the porpoise head.

porpoise hide n.

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1870 Times 20 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Porpoise hide for boots, thoroughly waterproof, soft as kid.

1979 Listener 4 Oct. 457/1 Nobody actually mentioned porpoise-hide boots or Bechuana tummy.

porpoise lace n.

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1886 Atlanta Constit. 13 Oct. 8/4 (advt.) Shoes for Men..in the latest styles, all qualities and Lowest Prices...Porpoise laces, French Dressings and all button work.

1924 N. Munro Selling Shoes in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) ii. xxxvii. 476 He took the first pair he laid hands on from a boxful made in Glasgow, squeezed them on to you, fastened them up in a hurry wi' porpoise laces.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1365 Whale-oil and spermaceti, whalebone and porpoise laces, treasures of beauty cut out of cachalots' teeth.

porpoise oil n.

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1849 App. 8th Vol. Jrnls. Legislative Assembly Province of Canada App. X., p. 8 Account of expenses attending the light house on Green Island, during the year 1848... R. S. Lindsay's account for 35 gallons porpoise oil.

1864 Sci. Amer. 23 Jan. 56/1 Porpoise oil is used chiefly for clocks and small tools.

1961 J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story xxvi. 237 Save for a few bales of furs and some barrels of porpoise oil..she was practically an empty ship.

2003 Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. The first man to cross the English Channel. Covered in porpoise oil, he set off from Dover..in 1875 and landed at Calais.

† porpoise pie n. Obsolete

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1618 N. Breton Court & Country sig. D4 A great man..sent him for a great dainty a Porpose Pye or two cold.

1893 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 26 Apr. Three-decker porpoise pie is an old-time whaling delicacy.

porpoise skin n.

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a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. N.vj His shooes of a porkepes skynne.

1756 Adams's Catal. Rarities (ed. 3) 2 Porpoise Skins, or Bracchio; such as they bring the Mountain Wines over the Hills in.

1870 Times 18 July 6/5 A pair of porpoise-skin shooting boots and a set of boot-trees.

1970 P. Lovesay Wobble to Death i. 12 Harvey sprinkled dusting powder in to the porpoise-skins, a pair fashioned for this race by Chadwick's Regimental cordwainer.

2000 Chem. & Industry (Nexis) 2 Oct. 628 Whale and porpoise skins make admirable leather.

Derivatives

ˈporpoise-like adv. and adj.

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1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. xxxi The Prince, could Porpoise-like in Tempests play.

a1801 J. Hurdis Poems (1808) III. 80 How joys the bold intruder, then, at large To flounder porpoise-like, wave after wave Mounting triumphant.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 570 Ziphoids. These are porpoise-like animals, without teeth in the upper jaw.

1921 J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Faery Lands South Seas vi. 126 They..leaped towards the shore all together with a porpoise-like curving of their bodies.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 483/2 Charles Moore discovered a Sea monster with a porpoiselike head and a ducklike beak washed up on the rocks at Natural Bridges State Beach near Santa Cruz, California, in May 1925.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	porpoise
释义	porpoisen. Brit. /ˈpɔːpəs/, U.S. /ˈpɔrpəs/ Forms: α. late Middle English porpais, late Middle English porpays, late Middle English porpeyse, late Middle English porpys, late Middle English–1500s porpas, late Middle English–1500s porpes, late Middle English–1700s porpos, late Middle English– porpus (now English regional), late Middle English–1500s porpasse, 1500s pork pisce, 1500s porpyse, 1500s porpyshe, 1500s–1600s porpose, 1500s–1800s porpesse, 1500s– porpoise, 1600s porpaise, 1600s porpiece, 1600s porpisce, 1600s porpise, 1600s porpoce, 1600s porpois, 1600s porpuis, 1600s porpuise, 1600s–1700s porpess, 1600s–1700s porpice, 1800s porpass; Scottish pre-1700 porpas, pre-1700 porpays, pre-1700 porpois, pre-1700 porpoys, 1700s– porpoise. β. late Middle English pourpays, late Middle English purpaysse, late Middle English purpeys, late Middle English purpois, late Middle English purpoys, late Middle English–1500s purpays, late Middle English–1500s purpose, 1600s purpesse, 1700s purpoise (Scottish). γ. late Middle English perpes. δ. 1500s porkepes, 1500s porkepisce, 1500s porkpis, 1500s–1600s porcpisce, 1500s–1600s porkpisce, 1600s porcipize, 1600s porcpis, 1600s porc'pisce, 1600s porcpise, 1600s porcupice, 1600s porcupisce, 1600s porcupise, 1600s porquepice. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French porpoise; Latin porcopiscis. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman porpés, porpoise, pourpas, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French porpais, pourpois, Old French porpois, Anglo-Norman and Middle French porpeis, Middle French pourpais (11th cent.; French regional (Guernsey) pourpeis , (Jersey) pourpais ) and (in δ. forms) its etymon post-classical Latin porcopiscis, literally ‘hog-fish’ or ‘fish-hog’ (in an 8th-cent. glossary; 1265 in a British source as porcus piscis ) < classical Latin porcus pig (see pork n.¹) + piscis fish (see Pisces n. and adj.). Compare post-classical Latin porpasius , porpeisius , porpesius , porpiscis , porpiscus , purpasius (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources). Compare classical Latin porcus marīnus , literally ‘sea-hog’, perhaps denoting a shark (Pliny; < porcus pig + marīnus marine adj.), Italian porco marino (1361). Compare earlier mereswine n. and later marsouin n.Compare (denoting types of fish) Occitan peis pòrc, Italian pesce porco boar-fish, Catalan peix porco sucking-fish, ultimately from the same two elements in reverse order. Attested earlier as a surname, Walter Porpeis (1299), although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as reflecting the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. Compare the following earlier quotations, although it is unclear whether these show the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1309–10 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 7 1 porpas.1329 Acct. Chamberl. Scotl. (1771) 7 In emptione unius porpoys, 5 s.1400–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 603 Famulo..portanti 1 purpays. 1. a. Any of various small delphinoid whales of the family Phocoenidae, characterized by a blunt, rounded snout and usually a low, triangular dorsal fin; esp. (more fully common porpoise, harbour porpoise) Phocoena phocoena, which is black above and whitish below with a grey patch on the side, and inhabits northern seas. Also: the flesh of a porpoise as an article of food.Occasionally with unmarked plural. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise) swineeOE mereswineeOE pellock1331 sea-swine1398 porpoisea1425 brownswinec1440 bassinatc1540 pollantine1558 sea-hog1580 hogfish1611 tursion1655 tumbler1694 sea-pig1826 snuffer1829 puffing pig1845 puff-pig1861 puffer1884 the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > miscellaneous members of porpoisea1425 grampusa1529 marsouin1568 α. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 111 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 123 Porpeys in broth. c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 81 (MED) In þe se we see many dyuerse kyndez of Fisches, Delphines & porpasez layke þam. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. H.i^v A young porpesse the whiche kynde of fisshe is nother praysyd in the olde testament nor in physycke. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. B3 Neither flesh nor fish as the Porpus. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 241 The Porpuisses..are made like the Dolphins. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 80 Wallowing Porpice sport and lord it in the flood. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 9 I neuer yet saw store of porposes playing, but soone a storme ensewed. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 6 A Porpess..taken with a Fish-gig above Malta. 1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Porpices..which delight in sporting and playing upon the waves. 1749 J. Hempstead Diary 7 July (1998) 517 They killed a Porpoise in ye River here yesterday with Guns Canoos & boats. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 329 There the porpess and the shark continue their depredations. 1807 J. R. Jewitt Jrnl. kept at Nootka Sound 6 When we sat down they put before us two large pieces of porpoise. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 193 The grand shoal..of which the arrival is announced by the number of its greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull, the shark, and the porpus. 1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 256 The Common Porpoise..is by far the most familiar Cetacean of our own and neighbouring coasts. 1909 Chatterbox 46/2 These fish..are greatly sought after by large fishes, such as the tunny and albacore, and also by porpoises. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vi. 89 They had a cheerful time chasing a wise old porpoise, who knew better than to come within harpoon range. 1997 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 14/8 Research is under way on an electronic ‘pinger’ device which can be fixed to nets to produce a sound that frightens porpoises away but this has not been fully developed. β. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 427 Make the nombuls of purpoys.a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 166 Purpose rosted on coles.1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 11 Fro the see to you come Whales pourpays [Fr. Balainnes porc de mer].?1565 tr. Albertus Magnus Bk. Secretes sig. Ev Foca, purpays is a fysh wel ynough knowen.1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie vi. 28 The monsters of the sea..are ceals purposes, & such like.a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 290 There were also two purpoises or spout whailes that ran up the River of Ness.γ. ?a1500 in J. H. Parker & J. Parker Our Eng. Home (1960) 68 (MED) [At the marriage of Henry V the guests were treated with a] rostid perpes.δ. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 5 The uglye Seales and Porkepisces nowe too and fro dyd flote.1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B3 His heard Of stinking Seales and Porcpisces.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. iii. 739 A great dead fish, round like a Porcpis.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 67 A Sturgeon, a Sea-Calfe, a Porcipize.1661 O. Felltham Brief Char. Low-Countries 60 in Resolves (rev. ed.) They are the people that thrive and grow rich by war, like the Porcpisce, that playes in the storm.1678 J. Dryden All for Love iv. 47 Her Eunuch there! That Porcpisce bodes ill weather.a1718 R. O'Flaherty Chorogr. Descr. W. Connaught (1846) 105 Eighteen porcupices..were taken near Tombeola. b. Chiefly Canadian. The beluga, Delphinapterus leucas. More fully white porpoise. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Monodontidae > genus Delphinapterus (white whale) beluga1605 white whale1635 whitefish1792 porpoise1841 sea-canary1879 1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 10 A species of porpoise, very large, called bottle-noses by the sailors, is also very plentiful. This fish is of a white colour in the river St. Lawrence... How they become white is not known... Probably this is a fish of a different kind from either the porpoise or the bottle-nose.] 1841 R. H. Bonnycastle Canadas in 1841 II. vi. 126 The white porpoise is dazzlingly white, and I think it must be the delphinus apterus beluga, or white whale of the icy seas, as described by Pennant and Shaw. 1897 C. R. Tuttle Golden North 213 Mr. Spencer is developing a large porpoise, or white whale fishery, on the very shores of Churchill harbor, where, with his nets and traps, he took last season, one hundred and ninety of these mammals, of immense size. 1923 Beaver June 340/2 Indian reports were received that porpoises, or white whales, were..making excursions..up a certain creek. 1931 ‘R. Connor’ Rock & River 4 The ‘porpoises’ were thrashing the water in their furious chase on the shoals of herring and smaller fish that fled before them. 1949 Science 11 Feb. 143/1 The white whale or porpoise, Delphinapterus leucas,..was known to occur in large numbers in the St. Lawrence estuary. 1991 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 8 Sept. d7 Thoreau was enchanted by the ‘noble river’, the St. Lawrence, with its whales and white porpoises and remarkable waterfalls. 2. a. slang. to do a porpoise: (of a submarine) to execute a sharp, near-vertical dive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine) dive1872 submerge1903 crash-dive1928 to do a porpoise1929 snort1953 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 105 Porpoise, doing a, said when a submarine dives down nose first at a sharp angle. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 74 Doing a porpoise, said of a submarine taking a sharp dive. b. Aeronautics colloquial. A bad landing in which an aircraft (esp. a seaplane) briefly touches down then rises again. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > bouncing or uneven porpoising1911 ballooning1922 porpoise1931 bump1941 1931 Times 21 Aug. 7/1 It [sc. a seaplane] dropped back on to the water and then porpoised again, double the height of the first porpoise. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 119 Porpoise, an undesired landing in which the airplane bobs up and down like a porpoise playing in the waves, caused by landing on the nose gear first. Compounds † porpoise beef n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1833 W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. 21 Jan. (1963) 97 Ate some porpoise beef at breakfast. 1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ iii. 19 Porpoise beef improves vastly by keeping. porpoise dive v. ΚΠ 1973 V. Canning Flight of Grey Goose vii. 138 He..took a deep breath, and porpoise-dived down, swimming strongly. 2002 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. He has to porpoise dive, and we are still in knee-deep water. porpoise diving n. ΚΠ 1905 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 9/2 The ‘Plunger’ was put through her paces at porpoise diving, ascending repeatedly to the surface, long enough to get her bearings, and immediately disappearing again. 1910 Chambers's Jrnl. June 368/1 Coming to the surface at intervals to sight, and then quickly sinking again. This operation is called by the Americans ‘porpoise diving’. porpoise head n. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351^v This cape may be easely knowen, by reason the rysynge of it is lyke a porpose hedde. 1974 Jrnl. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 56 659 (title) Sound transmission in the porpoise head. porpoise hide n. ΚΠ 1870 Times 20 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Porpoise hide for boots, thoroughly waterproof, soft as kid. 1979 Listener 4 Oct. 457/1 Nobody actually mentioned porpoise-hide boots or Bechuana tummy. porpoise lace n. ΚΠ 1886 Atlanta Constit. 13 Oct. 8/4 (advt.) Shoes for Men..in the latest styles, all qualities and Lowest Prices...Porpoise laces, French Dressings and all button work. 1924 N. Munro Selling Shoes in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) ii. xxxvii. 476 He took the first pair he laid hands on from a boxful made in Glasgow, squeezed them on to you, fastened them up in a hurry wi' porpoise laces. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1365 Whale-oil and spermaceti, whalebone and porpoise laces, treasures of beauty cut out of cachalots' teeth. porpoise oil n. ΚΠ 1849 App. 8th Vol. Jrnls. Legislative Assembly Province of Canada App. X., p. 8 Account of expenses attending the light house on Green Island, during the year 1848... R. S. Lindsay's account for 35 gallons porpoise oil. 1864 Sci. Amer. 23 Jan. 56/1 Porpoise oil is used chiefly for clocks and small tools. 1961 J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story xxvi. 237 Save for a few bales of furs and some barrels of porpoise oil..she was practically an empty ship. 2003 Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. The first man to cross the English Channel. Covered in porpoise oil, he set off from Dover..in 1875 and landed at Calais. † porpoise pie n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1618 N. Breton Court & Country sig. D4 A great man..sent him for a great dainty a Porpose Pye or two cold. 1893 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 26 Apr. Three-decker porpoise pie is an old-time whaling delicacy. porpoise skin n. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. N.vj His shooes of a porkepes skynne. 1756 Adams's Catal. Rarities (ed. 3) 2 Porpoise Skins, or Bracchio; such as they bring the Mountain Wines over the Hills in. 1870 Times 18 July 6/5 A pair of porpoise-skin shooting boots and a set of boot-trees. 1970 P. Lovesay Wobble to Death i. 12 Harvey sprinkled dusting powder in to the porpoise-skins, a pair fashioned for this race by Chadwick's Regimental cordwainer. 2000 Chem. & Industry (Nexis) 2 Oct. 628 Whale and porpoise skins make admirable leather. Derivatives ˈporpoise-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. xxxi The Prince, could Porpoise-like in Tempests play. a1801 J. Hurdis Poems (1808) III. 80 How joys the bold intruder, then, at large To flounder porpoise-like, wave after wave Mounting triumphant. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 570 Ziphoids. These are porpoise-like animals, without teeth in the upper jaw. 1921 J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Faery Lands South Seas vi. 126 They..leaped towards the shore all together with a porpoise-like curving of their bodies. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 483/2 Charles Moore discovered a Sea monster with a porpoiselike head and a ducklike beak washed up on the rocks at Natural Bridges State Beach near Santa Cruz, California, in May 1925. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). porpoisev. Brit. /ˈpɔːpəs/, U.S. /ˈpɔrpəs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: porpoise n. Etymology: < porpoise n. Compare to do a porpoise at porpoise n. 2a. 1. a. intransitive. To move or behave like a porpoise. ΚΠ 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) i. iii. 110 ‘Just as though an old Porpoise like him would ever make money,’ she said... ‘He'll just porpoise about.’ b. intransitive. spec. To move through water alternately surfacing and submerging. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > move alternately above and below surface porpoise1939 1939 G. H. Jones No less Renowned 46 The Coxswain and the Second Coxswain had their work cut out to prevent the vessel [sc. a submarine] from ‘porpoising’. 1976 Province (Vancouver) 8 Mar. 1/3 From 500 feet there appeared an island full of seals and an ocean full of an enormous whale porpoising through his domain before diving out of sight. 1987 World Mag. Oct. 84/1 And numerous agile Sea Lions playfully cavorted and porpoised, showing off their expertise in aquatic skills. 2005 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 26 Holmes showed his surf skills by porpoising through the shallow water before catching a broken wave to give him a winning edge. 2. intransitive. Of an aircraft, esp. a seaplane: to touch the water or ground briefly and rise again. Also of a car: to bounce up and down because of bumps on the road surface. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land > bounce on landing porpoise1914 balloon1931 1914 N.Y. Times 1 July 1 The America rose easily and planed for several hundred yards, but showed a tendency to ‘porpoise’, its nose and tail fin alternately striking the water and rising. 1919 Rep. & Mem. Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. No. 437. 6 The author has seen a machine..porpoise very badly in waves of only one to two feet high. 1930 P. White How to fly Airplane xiv. 216 Sometimes, students fail to level off at all. This is an error which is bound to result either in a crash, or in a ‘wheel’ landing from which the plane will bounce or ‘porpoise’ quite high. 1944 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 21 Sept. 6/6 The Liberator [bomber]..touched the water at a speed of approximately 100 miles per hour, porpoised (bounced) once, and struck again tail-first. 1987 Toronto Star 5 Sept. (Wheels section) j1 They'd like soft springs to swallow the bumps, but if they're too soft the car porpoises and pitches all over the place. 2005 J. R. Hansen First Man xiii. 145 At touchdown the airplane began to porpoise and, after several cycles of the porpoising, the nos wheel bracketry failed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425v.1909
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