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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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