Definitions for possum

possum pos·sum

Spelling: [pos-uh m]
IPA: /ˈpɒs əm/

Possum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in possum (mopssu).

Definitions for possum

noun

  1. opossum.
  2. Australian. any of various phalangers, especially of the genus Trichosurus.

Idioms

  1. play possum, Informal. to feign sleep or death. to dissemble or pretend ignorance:

Origin of possum

1605-15, Americanism; short for opossum

Examples for possum

It's more of a coma, something like the hibernation of a bear or a possum.

"There is one spoon missing," said Mr. possum, who had been counting the spoons.

He was also called “possum,” because he looked like one, especially when he grinned.

That is why possum pretends to be dead when he finds the hunters after him.

The 'possum is found from Connecticut to Florida and westerly to California.

They'd cook it like they did possum, bake it with taters or make dumplings.

They did not get any 'possum meat, and perhaps they would not have liked that.

Two hours east of Dallas, sun-drenched granite cliffs loom high above the cloudy waters of possum Kingdom Lake.

You'd say she's as 43 gray as a 'possum, an' as wrinkled as a burnt boot.

Had Black Beard been playing 'possum when he ought to have been laid out?

Word Value for possum
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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