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portly

(adj): euphemisms for `fat'
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about 22 hours ago yarb said:

But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him. That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 45

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