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Hildabeast en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Blend of Hilda + wildebeest, beast.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, qualifier:Oxford University slang; self-referent; Oxford University slang; self-referent) A member or alumnus of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
    • Go to a party. Half the college was there. Write for a student rag. Hildabeasts were running the show. Act, row, you couldn’t escape them. In a nice normal mixed college like Lincoln, they all spent three years in the bar wrestling with knot theory and acne. In St Hilda’s we’d written the book, got the doctorate and gone out clubbing. 1997 March 19, Glenda Cooper, “The lusty ways of St Hilda”, in The Independent, number 3,248, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, columns 4–5:

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Hildabeast en · PROPN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (US, alt-of, alternative, derogatory) Alternative spelling of Hildebeast.
    alt of Hildebeast
    • Hildabeast sells the remaining 80 percent of American uranium to Russia, after Putin’s assurance that it is strictly for “medical research.” 2016 December 31, David Mosley, “Republican Worst Fears”, in “Our Worst Fears”, in Waco Tribune-Herald, Waco, Tex., page 105, column 2:
    • If a person like Hildabeast can run with all the criminal activity she’s involved in, all hope is lost. 2016 July 22, Bloom man [pseudonym], “:30”, in Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Pa., page 25, column 1:
    • It appears that the Hildabeast hired some tech people to infiltrate the Trump campaign computer servers to try and plant LIES about Trump being involved with Russia. 2022 March 6, Stan Crone Jr, “:30”, in Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Pa., page 15, column 5:

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