Meaning of mimophant | Babel Free

Definitions

A person with extreme social self-centered double standards, especially about personal feelings.

uncommon

Examples

“Sunday, 16th June [1985]...Nico has invented a portmanteau word which applies to people like⟳ Garrett and Derek Hill, who are keenly sensitive about their own⟳ feelings while treading on the toes of others. It is ‘mimophant’. The mimosa is reputed to curl up when touched; the elephant - well!”

“In Rejkjavik to cover⟳ the match⟳, the novelist Arthur Koestler famously coined the neologism "mimophant" to describe⟳ Fischer. "A mimophant is a hybrid species: a cross between a mimosa and an elephant. A member of this species is sensitive like⟳ a mimosa where his own⟳ feelings are concerned and thick-skinned like⟳ an elephant trampling over the feelings of others."”

CEFR level