pachyderm
PAK-i-durm
1. A person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.
2. Any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
3. An elephant.
Let's stop and take a look at this. Slowly, the definition transforms from a person with an apparent immunity to insult, to an elephant. Hey, do you guys know to kill a blue elephant? With a blue elephant gun of course! Anywai propose that this is one of the words that started out meaning one thing ( I.e, pachyderm) and eventually came to mean another. So, what other words do you know that probably had this occur to them?
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