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hedgeborn

hedgeborn adjective: born under a hedge or of low birth.

Adjective

hedgeborn (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Born under a hedge or of low birth.
    • Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (obsolete) growing in a hedge
    • The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose
      As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose1869, George Eliot, How Lisa Loved the King

Origin of hedgeborn

From hedge + born.

Questions about hedgeborn

What does hedgeborn mean?
Hedgeborn means born under a hedge or of low birth.
What part of speech is hedgeborn?
Hedgeborn is an adjective.

Words near hedgeborn in the dictionary

  1. hedgebanks
  2. hedgeberries
  3. hedgeberry
  4. hedgebill
  5. hedgebills
  6. hedgeborn
  7. hedgebote
  8. hedgebotes
  9. hedgebreaker
  10. hedgebreakers
  11. Hedgecock

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