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hyppogriff

hyppogriff is the archaic form of hippogriff.

Meaning of hippogriff

Noun

hippogriff (plural hippogriffs)

  1. a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
    • To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.1732, July 18, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 12 published 1801, page 478

Forms of hyppogriff

pluralhyppogriffs

Questions about hyppogriff

What is hyppogriff the archaic form of?
Hyppogriff is the archaic form of hippogriff.

Words near hyppogriff in the dictionary

  1. hypozincemia
  2. hypozoic
  3. hypped
  4. hypping
  5. hyppish
  6. hyppogriff
  7. hyppogriffs
  8. Hyppolite
  9. Hyppolites
  10. hyppos
  11. hypromellose

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