What does porpentine mean?
Porpentine means (archaic) Porcupine..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) Porcupine..
[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]
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Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.
Use porpentine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Porpentine means (archaic) Porcupine..
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[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]
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