sphinx

The great Sphinx of Giza

Meanings

A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx (species), formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
A sphinx moth.
A sphincter.

To decorate with sphinxes
To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
To be inscrutable, often through silence
To make one guess at the unknowable
To befuddle
For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening

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