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giraffedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From giraffe + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a giraffe, or of belonging to the world of giraffes; giraffes collectively.
    • Boy, youth and man, you'll ever find the world is villianously inclined so strive, as all giraffedom should, to spurn the bad and grasp the good. 1982, Koolewong, volumes 11-13, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 13:
    • Since childhood, I had given up giraffedom to become a turtle, or maybe a miniature antelope. 1999, Mark Sumner, The Vampires of Vermont, page 15:
    • But was there, in cold fact, any simple justification, any more than there TV as for the fabulous jewel in the peacock's feather, for that singular creation, that extravagance of angles, that triangular elongation coated with crazy paving, the modern and somewhat modest descendant of a long experiment in giraffedom? 1977, Betty Leslie-Melville, Jock Leslie-Melville, Raising Daisy Rothschild, page 14: