oliphant
pronunciation
How to pronounce oliphant in British English:
UK ['ɒlɪfənt]
How to pronounce oliphant in American English:
US ['ɒləfənt]
Word Origin
- oliphant (n.)
- obsolete form of elephant, c. 1200; also used in Middle English with sense "ivory horn."
Example
- 1. This is the background to pat oliphant 's cartoon .
- 2. Pat oliphant 's cartoon seems to be set in an anglican church in canada .
- 3. The democrats have a crazed look in their eye , like oliphant 's mad ass.
- 4. Here oliphant makes bush out to be a scrawny beast , not the muscular and rather cuddly sort of working dog that most real seeing-eye dogs are .
- 5. Clearly oliphant believes that republican tax cuts , on top of the expensive war in iraq , are making it harder for the us to respond to unforeseen events .