sphinx

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
2. 2
   noun A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person.
3. 3
   noun A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
4. 4
   noun A sphinx moth.
5. 5
   noun A sphincter.
6. 6
   verb To decorate with sphinxes
7. 7
   verb To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
8. 8
   verb To be inscrutable, often through silence
9. 9
   verb To make one guess at the unknowable
10. 10
    verb To befuddle
11. 11
    verb For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening