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Hildabeast

Hildabeast noun: a member or alumnus of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Also the alternative spelling of Hildebeast.

Noun

Hildabeast (plural Hildabeasts)

  1. (humorous, Oxford University slang, self-referent) A member or alumnus of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
    • Go to a party. Half the college was there. Write for a student rag. Hildabeasts were running the show. Act, row, you couldn’t escape them. In a nice normal mixed college like Lincoln, they all spent three years in the bar wrestling with knot theory and acne. In St Hilda’s we’d written the book, got...1997 March 19, Glenda Cooper, “The lusty ways of St Hilda”, in The Independent, number 3,248, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, columns 4–5

Also used as

Hildabeast is also the alternative spelling of Hildebeast.

Forms of Hildabeast

pluralHildabeasts

Origin of Hildabeast

Blend of Hilda + wildebeest, beast.

Questions about Hildabeast

What does Hildabeast mean?
Hildabeast means a member or alumnus of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
What part of speech is Hildabeast?
Hildabeast is a noun.
What is the plural of Hildabeast?
The plural of Hildabeast is Hildabeasts.

Words near Hildabeast in the dictionary

  1. hilches
  2. hilching
  3. hild
  4. Hilda
  5. Hilda's
  6. Hildabeast
  7. Hildabeasts
  8. Hildebeast
  9. Hildebran
  10. Hildebrand
  11. Hildebrand rules

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