giraffedom

giraffedom

English

Etymology

giraffe +‎ -dom

Noun

giraffedom (uncountable)

1. The state of being a giraffe, or of belonging to the world of giraffes; giraffes collectively.
   • 1977, Betty Leslie-Melville, ‎Jock Leslie-Melville, Raising Daisy Rothschild, page 14:

     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?

   • 1982, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Koolewong, Volumes 11-13, page 13:

     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.

   • 1999, Mark Sumner, The Vampires of Vermont, page 15:

     Since childhood, I had given up giraffedom to become a turtle, or maybe a miniature antelope.