heffalump

n. 大象

发音

UK /ˈhɛfəlʌmp/
US /ˈhɛfəˌlʌmp/
US /-ˌləmp/

词形变化

heffalumps 复数 heffalumps

别名

Heffalump

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    (A child's name for) an elephant.

    幽默

    We went to the zoo and saw some heffalumps.

  2. 2.

    Something that is elusive.

    比喻 非正式
  3. 3.

    A clumsy or overweight person.

    贬义 俚语

相关短语

heffalump trap heffalump traps

词源

Probably a childish mispronunciation of elephant, perhaps influenced by half a lump (as in "I'll have half a lump of sugar in my tea"), coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) as the name of an imaginary animal in his book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). The animal was not described in the book, but the illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (1879–1976) depicted it as an elephant. Sense 2 (“something which is elusive”) refers to the fact that in Milne’s book the characters Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set a trap for, but are unable to capture, a heffalump.

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