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单词 hideling
释义

hideling

English

Etymology 1

From hidel + -ing or from a back-formation from hidelings (adverb).

Adjective

hideling (comparative more hideling, superlative most hideling)

  1. (dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.
    • 1895, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 7:
      [...] although from the small creature's habits it must be to a certain extent local, several places in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire are known to us where it may be called abundant, taking into consideration its hideling ways.
  • hidelings

Etymology 2

From hide + -ling.

Noun

hideling (plural hidelings)

  1. (dialectal) A person or thing given to hiding itself.

Anagrams

  • hielding
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