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Porpentine

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Porcupine. archaic

    "[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]"

Etymology

Alteration of porcupine.

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