See sphinx in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1933, Roycroft Junto Outlines, The Roycrofters, page 412:",
"text": "Perhaps Nature is sphinxing us on purpose. Whatever her objects may be, perhaps she gets her work done better when she appeals to our gambling instincts. If you knew for certain exactly how your marriage was going to turn out[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, page 53:",
"text": "And then he summarizes his fears with a reference to that icon which[…]stood for the feminine threat to civilization: “Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: it is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.” Male fears of an engulfing femininity are here projected onto the metropolitan masses, who did indeed represent a threat to the rational bourgeois order.[…]We may want to relate Le Bon's social psychology of the masses back to modernism's own fears of being sphinxed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave in a manner characteristic of the Sphinx."
],
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"behave",
"behave"
],
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"characteristic",
"characteristic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To behave in a manner characteristic of the Sphinx."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"enpr": "sfĭngks"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsfɪŋks/"
},
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{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋks"
}
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"tags": [
"dated"
],
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}
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],
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}
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