sphinx
- Proper noun. (usually, with "''the''") An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.
- Proper noun. (mythology) The demon of destruction and bad luck in Greek mythology.
- Noun. (mythology) A creature with the head of a human and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
- Noun. A person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret.
- Noun. (rare) A sphincter.
- Verb. o decorate with sphinxes.
- Verb. o adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
- Verb. o be inscrutable, often through silence.
- Verb. o make one guess at the unknowable.
- Verb. o befuddle.
- Verb. or the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening.
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