Crossword-Solution: POSSUM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Possum | n. | An opossum. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POSSUM | anagram | MOPSUS |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with POSSUM (5)
After that he follows me to the cabin, and sees Polly Ann and Tom and the children on the floor poking a ‘possum.
Those tangy frosty afternoons, when he had been forced to clean barns and plow while the other boys went rabbit and possum hunting or nutting, were afternoons whose loss he still mourned.
Dear Peter from my threshold went, One morning in the body: He "dropped" me, to oblige a gent-- A gent with spear and waddy! He shelved me for a boomerang-- We never had a quarrel; And, if a moral here doth hang, Why let it hang--the moral! My mournful tale its course has run-- My Pete, when last I spied him, Was eating 'possum underdone: He had his gin beside him.
Reddy Fox Has a Visitor Hardly was old Granny Fox out of sight on her way to hunt for the chicken she had left on the hill, when Unc' Billy Possum came strolling along the Lone Little Path.
When I took the jay carefully from the trap he played possum, lying limp in my hand till my grip relaxed, when he flew to a branch over my head, squalling and upbraiding me for having anything to do with such abominable inventions.
Quotes with POSSUM (3)
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 53 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).