Definition of Sphinx | Word Scrabble Finder

NOUN

Definition - A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
Definition - A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person.
Definition - A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
Definition - A sphinx moth.
Definition - A sphincter.

VERB

Definition - To decorate with sphinxes
Example - a marble sphinxed chimney-piece
Definition - To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
Example - 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.
Definition - To be inscrutable, often through silence
Example - (1900) The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe / Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?
Definition - To make one guess at the unknowable
Example - (1933) Perhaps Nature is sphinxing us on purpose. Whatever her objects may be, perhaps she gets her work done better when she appeals to our gambling instincts. If you knew for certain exactly how your marriage was going to turn out ...
Definition - To befuddle
Example - (2010) She swiveled and sphinxed Giles. 'And you, I suppose you've never been here either?' Giles squirmed. 'Well, I – that is, Miss Wh—, I mean, Miss Taylor, I –' He looked to me for rescue.
Definition - For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening
Example - (1986) modernism's fears of being sphinxed by a feminized mass culture

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sphinx ₁₈

hips ₉ phis ₉ pish ₉ ship ₉ hins ₇ hisn ₇ shin ₇ sinh ₇ nips ₆ pins ₆ snip ₆ spin ₆

pix ₁₂ nix ₁₀ six ₁₀ xis ₁₀ hip ₈ phi ₈ hin ₆ his ₆ nip ₅ pin ₅ pis ₅ psi ₅ sip ₅ ins ₃ sin ₃

xi ₉ hi ₅ sh ₅ pi ₄ in ₂ is ₂ si ₂

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