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giraffish en · ADJ

Etymology

From giraffe + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a giraffe, especially in being unusually tall.
   • Sitwell portrayed her giraffish stature and prominent features: “Of impressive height—a height that was over life-size for a woman, so that without looking a giantess she might yet seem an animated public monument […] 2002, Jeffrey Meyers, D.H. Lawrence: A Biography, page 160:
   • So he looked kind of giraffish. 1984, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde, On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, page 127:

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Synonyms

giraffelike