pachyderm
IPA: pætʃɪdɝm
noun
- (obsolete, zoology) A member of the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant and tapir.
- (informal) An elephant
- (idiomatic) A person with thick skin; someone who is not affected by or does not care what others say about him or her.
- (idiomatic) Someone who is insensitive.
Examples of "pachyderm" in Sentences
- Just the horn of an irascible, endangered pachyderm.
- However, the pachyderm in this room is too big to be ignored.
- Jwest, a pachyderm sleeping on the job doesnt call the shots.
- Pachyderma is the thickening of skin like that of a pachyderm.
- Unless, of course, it is plagued by a case of pachyderm amnesia.
- I say it stays regardless of how it was portrayed thet pachyderm.
- Googling "pachyderm" repeatedly and not getting the desired result.
- The elephant is in many ways a pachyderm of psychological proportions.
- Others firmly defended the legitimacy of the pachyderm platform pipes.
- The pachyderm was attached to a small circus that performed in the city.
- The concerts also featured the trio's mascot and pachyderm pal, Elephant.
- The pachyderm arrived on July 1, 802 to the Emperor's residence in Aachen.
- The zoo has closed the pachyderm house to visitors until the weather warms up.
- To be in politics, a person is better off, bein 'called a pachyderm, rather than a weasel.
- The paper said the pachyderm is estimated to be 18 years old and is the fifth white elephant captured since 2001.
- For example, "Elephants" actually features brass recalling a pachyderm call, accompanied by string screeches sounding like wayward seabirds.
- 'Dismissing constitutional checks and balances, which cannot resist it or deflect its course, the presidential pachyderm is spurred only by forces that stand outside institutions -- the media and the street.'
- BBB when you can show me something in the asinus or pachyderm bill that shows where government is forcing doctors to work for a government run health care operation to provide public health care services you are just parroting things you have heard.
- Although I have to say, at risk of losing my status as a sycophant (and when did a term for crazy members of the pachyderm family become the descriptor for a slavish follower? ba-dum-bum) that the "if I'm pissing people off on both sides of an issue then I must be right" ain't necessarily so.