One of my students used the following word on one of their Final Exams, perhaps ya’ll can help me come up with a good definition for it:
HYPOCRIPSY
My new favorite word
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5 responses to “My new favorite word”
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Something relating to extremely easy tasks/classes?
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Something relating to failing a final exam?
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Hypocrispy- the state of a food which is neither crispy or soggy but more towards the crispy end without being crispy enough….
(just finished listening to a thingy about hypomania)
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I can’t quite put my tongue on it, but I think it must have something to do with disability politics.
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hypocripsy [hi-pok-rip-see] (Variant spelling of hypocrypsy)
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Of the nature of a tomb which is pretentious beyond the stature of the person or persons buried there.1972 Atlanta Constitution 14 May When you have seen a rural Georgian peanut farmer driving a Rolls Royce, you have seen the face of hypocripsy.
(See hypocrypt and variant hypocript.)
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