giraffish
adjEtymology From giraffe + -ish.
1
Resembling or characteristic of a giraffe, especially in being unusually tall.
- So he looked kind of giraffish.1984, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde, On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, page 127:
- Sitwell portrayed her giraffish stature and prominent features: “Of impressive height—a height that was over life-size for a woman, so that without looking a giantess she might yet seem an animated public monument […]2002, Jeffrey Meyers, D.H. Lawrence: A Biography, page 160:
- Synonyms
- giraffelike