Synonyms for possum
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pos-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒs əm |
Définition of possum
Origin :- 1610s, shortened form of opossum. Phrase play possum is first recorded 1822.
- As in marsupial : noun pouched mammal
- You'd say she's as 43 gray as a 'possum, an' as wrinkled as a burnt boot.
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- The 'possum is found from Connecticut to Florida and westerly to California.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
- That is why Possum pretends to be dead when he finds the hunters after him.
- Extract from : « Myths and Legends of the Great Plains » by Unknown
- "There is one spoon missing," said Mr. Possum, who had been counting the spoons.
- Extract from : « Sandman's Goodnight Stories » by Abbie Phillips Walker
- It's more of a coma, something like the hibernation of a bear or a possum.
- Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell
- They'd cook it like they did possum, bake it with taters or make dumplings.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
- Had Black Beard been playing 'possum when he ought to have been laid out?
- Extract from : « Ambrotox and Limping Dick » by Oliver Fleming
- They did not get any 'possum meat, and perhaps they would not have liked that.
- Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope
- Him eaty da' 'possum, him eaty da' pop-co'n, him roas'n da' taty. '
- Extract from : « Nights With Uncle Remus » by Joel Chandler Harris
- He belongs to an old Southern family and his name is just possum.
- Extract from : « Cobb's Bill-of-Fare » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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