Hy-gog´i-cal, a. Unattainable; next to impossible.
Oh, that hygogical curtain-shade that simply will not catch, jiggle it up and down as you will! Oh, that mirror, too high for you, even on tiptoe! Oh, that telephone operator who won’t answer—and that match you can’t find, in the dark. Hygogs. Did you ever wait for a sneeze that wouldn’t come? It is a hygog.
The chandelier—just out of reach; with lighted match, how often have I striven to light the gas! It was a hygog. How near, and yet how far!
Your note paper too large for the envelope. Fold it over on the edges and cram it in— No, it sticks, and will not go! It’s a hygog. Or, if once rammed in, no man can draw it forth. (See Wijjicle.)
Ah, but you suffer, not only for your hygog, but for another’s: The actor, who forgets his lines, the parlor elocutionist who pauses and cannot get the next verse—the hygog is an agony unendurable. (See Splooch.)
Hygogical is the strained anxiety of one who waits in nervous suspense for someone to meet her at the station in time to catch the train.
The cave-man knew it when, pursued by a saber-toothed tiger, he crawled out on the end of a too slender limb.
In Baltimore an oyster rare
Lay on his shell of pearl,
Huge as an alligator pear—
’Twas placed before a girl.
Two times to swallow it she tried,
Three times, and still did fail;
The hygog was too long, too wide—
Let’s kindly draw the veil!
Hyp´ri-jimp, n. 1. A man in a woman’s place or who does women’s work. 2. An obedient and thoroughly domesticated husband. 3. A man entirely surrounded by women.