philhippic
adjUK /fɪlˈhɪpɪk/
Etymology From phil- + hippic.
1
Rare Fond of horses, horse-loving.
- A philhippic discourse is to be endured from him, not incomparable to that of those pubescent girls who would readily entrap the Unicorn and who doubtless would make the Minocorn no less welcome […].1972, Michael Ayrton, Fabrications:
- This is a particularly apt satire of Englishness inasmuch as it is surrounded by the jingoistic mockery of the philhippic Neapolitan, the fantastical Frenchman, the cowardly Scot and the drunk German.2013, Michael Saenger, Shakespeare and the French Borders of English, page 60:
- Related terms
- Philip, Phillip