WhaleNot a fish, but a cetaceous mammal. A group of whales is called a school. The fat is called blubber. The female is called a cow. The fore-limbs are called paddles. The male is called a bull-whale. The spear used in whale-flashing is called a harpoon. The young of whales is a cub or calf. TOOTHED-WHALES include sperm-whales and dolphins. WHALE-BONE WHALES include rorquals and humpbacks. WhaleVery like a whale. Very much like a cock-and-bull story; a fudge. Hamlet chaffs Polonius by comparing a cloud to a camel, and then to a weasel, and when the courtier assents Hamlet adds, “Or like a whale”; to which Polonius answers, “Very like a whale.” (Act iii. 2.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Whale from Infoplease:
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