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behinded

behinded adjective: having a behind (of a specific type).

Adjective

behinded (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having a behind (of a specific type).
    • I am a kind of farthing dip,
      Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;
      A blue-behinded ape, I skip
      Upon the trees of Paradise.1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Portrait”, in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1898, page 63
    • Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote

Origin of behinded

From behind + -ed.

Questions about behinded

What does behinded mean?
Behinded means having a behind (of a specific type).
What part of speech is behinded?
Behinded is an adjective.

Words near behinded in the dictionary

  1. behind the wire
  2. behind time
  3. behind-hand
  4. behind-the-scenes
  5. behinde
  6. behinded
  7. behinder
  8. behinders
  9. behindest
  10. behindhand
  11. behindhandness

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