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hideling

hideling adjective: given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.

Adjective

hideling (comparative more hideling, superlative most hideling)

  1. (dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.
    • [...] 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.1895, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 7

Noun

hideling (plural hidelings)

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

Forms of hideling

Adjective
comparativemore hideling
superlativemost hideling
Noun
pluralhidelings

Origin of hideling

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

From hide + -ling.

Questions about hideling

What does hideling mean?
Hideling means given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.
What part of speech is hideling?
Hideling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hideling in the dictionary

  1. hidegild
  2. Hideko
  3. hidel
  4. hidel-like
  5. hideless
  6. hideling
  7. hidelings
  8. hidels
  9. hideman
  10. hidemen
  11. Hidemitsu

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