elephanty

English

Etymology

From elephant +‎ -y.

Adjective

elephanty (comparative more elephanty, superlative most elephanty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
   • 1902 October 27, John Aplin, editor, The Letters of Philip Webb, volumes III (1899–1902), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 312:

     ‘The elephant is from a drawing of Rembrandt’s, & I thought it would interest you as being both elephanty & Rembrandty — full of the characteristic qualities of each. […]’ SCC to PSW, 27 October 1902, BL Add 52761, f. 52.

   • 1986, Charles Mangua, Son of Woman in Mombasa, Spear Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 208:

     […] I stop the car in front of this little hotel some fellow has just put up in town and which is called the “Elephant Castle”. There is nothing elephanty about it except that it is all round and nice so I reckon that the fellow was thinking about the elephant’s foot but not an elephant house.

   • 2009, Anthony McGowan, Jack Tumor, New York, N .Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 54:

     At that moment a crocodile grabs hold of the elephant’s trunk, and the elephant starts thrashing around and trumpeting, and the mouse thinks that she’s having a big elephanty orgasm and he squeaks out, “Oh yeah, baby.”

   • 2013, Philip Ardagh, The Grunts All at Sea, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:

     And one of the things that elephants have to do, in addition to eating and drinking and being all elephanty, is to have a poo once in a while.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Sceptre, →ISBN:

     Sort of elephanty eyes in a wrinkled old face, with short grey hair, a grubby safari shirt and a leathery wide-brimmed hat that looks a hundred years old.

   • 2018, Daniel Cardinal, Gerald Jones, Jeremy Hayward, AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2: Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, Hodder Education, →ISBN:

     The thought of the green elephant occurred in my brain, but only looks green and elephanty to the thinker (me).

   • 2019, Rivka Galchen, Rat Rule 79: An Adventure, Restless Books, →ISBN, page 19:

     He gave a proud, elephanty bow and set the umbrella down.

   • 2020, Kid Normal and the Final Five, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Mr Tembo tried to reply, but his large elephanty fingers were too clumsy to press the TALK button.