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Raresphinxes
The correct spelling is sphinxes.
How to pronounce sphinxes
noun
Say it like: Sfi-nxe-s
The correct spelling is sphinxes. A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion). For example: "a marble sphinxed chimney-piece"
Usage Examples
“a marble sphinxed chimney-piece”
“A hot lion with a very bloated stomach ... will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.”
“(1900) The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe / Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
- 2.A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person.
- 3.A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
- 4.A sphinx moth.
- 5.A sphincter.
verb
- 1.To decorate with sphinxes
- 2.To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
- 3.To be inscrutable, often through silence
- 4.To make one guess at the unknowable
- 5.To befuddle
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