grampus
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Other monikers are equally undignified: “snot otter,” “mud devil,” “grampus.”
From Washington Post
A few years ago, an immense shoal of grampus were driven ashore at Antigua during a season of stormy weather, and by the oil they yielded, became a valuable prize.
From Project Gutenberg
“And how do you know a grampus does?” asked McBain, smiling.
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On the 26th of December we saw several albicores, dolphins, and grampus, and shoals of flying fish; lat. at noon 22.
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The final corruption to “grampus” appears in the 18th century and was probably nautical in origin.
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