Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
The Nome King was in an angry mood, and at such times he was very disagreeable. The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context. And now you are angry with me too because I have a man here. The Odyssey by Homer View in context. Only when angry do I utter my fearful, ear-splitting, soul-shuddering growl. anger; see anger .]. anâ²griÂ·ly adv. anâ²griÂ·ness n. Synonyms: angry, furious, indignant, irate, ireful, mad, wrathful. These adjectives mean feeling or showing marked displeasure: an angry retort; a furious scowl; an indignant denial; irate protesters; ireful words; mad at a friend; a wrathful tyrant.