pachydermatous

English

pachydermatous (comparative more pachydermatous, superlative most pachydermatous)

Of or relating to the pachyderms.
Synonym: pachydermic
Like an elephant.
Synonym: elephantine
- 1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122:
  The sanda comes up tail foremost, and blocks the orifice with his pachydermatous appendage.
(humorous) Thick-skinned; insensitive.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
  The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “pachydermatous”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Frederick C. Mish (Editor in Chief), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Merriam-Webster, 2003. →ISBN.
pachydermatous in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
Mrs. Byrne [Josefa Heifetz Byrne] (1979) “pachydermatous”, in Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, London: Granada Publishing, →ISBN.