All 4 Uses of
ponderous
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- A ponderous Saxon.†
Chpt 1
- He whispered then near Stephen's ear: LENEHAN'S LIMERICK There's a ponderous pundit MacHugh Who wears goggles of ebony hue.†
Chpt 7 *
- The ponderous pundit, Hugh MacHugh, Dublin's most brilliant scribe and editor and that minstrel boy of the wild wet west who is known by the euphonious appellation of the O'Madden Burke.†
Chpt 11
- (He swoops uncertainly through the air, wheeling, uttering cries of heartening, on strong ponderous buzzard wings) Ho, boy!†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(ponderous) large or of great weight; or slow and unwieldy -- especially because of size
or
boring -- especially because of length