My new favorite word

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

5 thoughts on “My new favorite word”

  1. Cait

    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)

  2. Sara

    I can’t quite put my tongue on it, but I think it must have something to do with disability politics.

  3. gs

    hypocripsy [hi-pok-rip-see] (Variant spelling of hypocrypsy)

    -noun
    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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