grampus

He continues: “Water dog, grampus, grumpus, mollyhugger, horny head, devil dog.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

It h a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"And churn, Ben!" nodded Mr. Dalroyd, his delicate nostrils quivering in his sleepy smile, "You churn till you sweat, churn till you blow like any grampus, I understand."

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

I wakened about seven bells in the morning watch, just for a moment, you know, and you were snoring like a grampus.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

And you snore, George, you snore man, aye, egad, like a very grampus!

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I say, can't you throw lighter over there? we ain't fishing for grampuses," shouted Tom across the stream.

From Tom Brown's School Day's by Thomas Hughes

The second side-course—miocene—was out of course, flesh after fowl: marine mammalia,—seals, grampuses, and whales, served up with sea- weed on their flanks, hearts and kidneys deviled, and fins and flippers friccasied.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

"I suppose it is only some other pleasant adjunct of the charming spot you would select for a villa," said Grenfell; "perhaps the seals or the grampuses are musical."

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever

An escort of 'thrashers,' or grampuses, accompanied me.

From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend