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单词 philhippic
释义

philhippic

English

Etymology

From phil- + hippic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fɪlˈhɪpɪk/

Adjective

philhippic (comparative more philhippic, superlative most philhippic)

  1. (rare) Fond of horses, horse-loving. [from 19th c.]
    • 1972, Michael Ayrton, Fabrications:
      A philhippic discourse is to be endured from him, not incomparable to that of those pubescent girls who would readily entrap the Unicorn and who doubtless would make the Minocorn no less welcome […].
    • 2013, Michael Saenger, Shakespeare and the French Borders of English, p. 60:
      This is a particularly apt satire of Englishness inasmuch as it is surrounded by the jingoistic mockery of the philhippic Neapolitan, the fantastical Frenchman, the cowardly Scot and the drunk German.
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