gargoylelike
adjEtymology From gargoyle + -like.
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Like a gargoyle.
- On the wall hung paintings of the djab—the devil—gargoylelike with protruding red tongues pierced by red dagger and lightning bolts […].1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 227:
- The set was enormous, with lots of big scaffolds, and there was giant statue of a gargoyle-like character with a high forehead (which we joked looked a bit like Paul Berrow).2008, Andy Taylor, Wild Boy: