Word of the Day: boanthropy

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boanthropy (noun)

A mental disorder; the belief that one is a cow or an ox

"...Nebuchadnezzar may have been made to think himself a subject of boanthropy when 'he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen,' continuing this occupation until his body was soaked with the dews of heaven, till his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws."
--Frank Hamel, Human Animals (1915)

Moo! I’d rather be called a victim of boanthropy than a clumsy ox any day.

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