"irrelephant" meaning in All languages combined

See irrelephant on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more irrelephant [comparative], most irrelephant [superlative]
Etymology: Blend of irrelevant + elephant. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|irrelevant|elephant}} Blend of irrelevant + elephant Head templates: {{en-adj}} irrelephant (comparative more irrelephant, superlative most irrelephant)
  1. (humorous) Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants. Tags: humorous
    Sense id: en-irrelephant-en-adj-leoQpsVh Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1930, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, & George S. Kaufman, Animal Crackers, 00:49:33-00:49:58",
          "text": "Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Paul Dickson, Jokes: Outrageous Bits, Atrocious Puns, and Ridiculous Routines for Those Who Love Jests, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "It was no fluke that the best of elephant-joke books — 101 Elephant Jokes — was written by Robert Blake, fourteen, who ran the following warning at the beginning of his work: \"Practically no parents will think elephant jokes are funny.\"\nBut all of this is quite irrelephant; bring on the jokes.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010 June 26, KORN Andras [username], “Re: unbound 1 host tobb IP-vel”, in hun.lists.mlf.linux-flame (Usenet):",
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        "(humorous) Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants."
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