behinded
English
Etymology
behind + -ed
Adjective
behinded (not comparable)
- (chiefly in combination) Having a behind (of a specific type).
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Portrait" in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, 1898, p. 63,
- I am a kind of farthing dip,
- Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;
- A blue-behinded ape, I skip
- Upon the trees of Paradise.
- 1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote,
- Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 23”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:
- There was a hoot from the distant train. It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.
- 1969, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, This Child's Gonna Live, excerpted in William H. Banks, Jr. (ed.), Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary, New York: Harlem Moon, 2010,
- Then she was gonna tell him where his old bleached-out papa come from and his weak-behinded mamma too, if she could stomach herself getting down that low.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Portrait" in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, 1898, p. 63,