heffalump
Meanings
Plural: heffalumps
Noun
- (A child's name for) an elephant.
- Something that is elusive.
- A clumsy or overweight person.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat, fat fuck, fat-ass, fatass, fatfuck, fatshit, fatso, fattie, fatty, fussock, gorbelly, hambeast, hamplanet, heffalump, landwhale, lardass, lardbucket, lardo, obeast, oinker, pig, podge, porker, pudge, roly-poly, salad dodger, swagbelly, thunder thighs, tub of guts, tub of lard, tubbo, whale
Antonyms
fat person
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