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haedine

UK/ˈhiːdaɪn/

haedine adjective: resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e., a juvenile goat); compare caprine, hircine.

Adjective

haedine (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, rare) Resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e., a juvenile goat); compare caprine, hircine.
    • Then there was an old-clothes man of Hebraic origin ; a fully-costumed darkey waiter, dispensing delicious liquors from a tray ; countless clowns and placarded unfathomables ; a poor, droning blind man ; a midnight reveller with the essential lamp post ; a valiant huntsman ; an escaped convict, №...1914: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio, volume 20, page 70

Origin of haedine

From the Latin haedīnus (“kidlike”), from haedus (“kid, young goat”); compare caprine, hircine. By surface analysis, haed- (“kid, young goat”) + -ine.

Questions about haedine

What does haedine mean?
Haedine means resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e., a juvenile goat); compare caprine, hircine.
What part of speech is haedine?
Haedine is an adjective.
How do you pronounce haedine?
Haedine is pronounced /ˈhiːdaɪn/ (UK).

Words near haedine in the dictionary

  1. Haeckelism
  2. Haecker
  3. Haeckers
  4. haed
  5. haed-
  6. haedine
  7. Haefele
  8. Haefeles
  9. Haefeli
  10. Haefner
  11. Haefners

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