hole-and-corner
hole-and-corner adjective: conducted in secret; clandestine.
Adjective
hole-and-corner
- Conducted in secret; clandestine.
- The Baron rather frowned on such things, thinking them injudicious at the present stage of affairs, so His Highness had to go about them in a hole and corner manner.1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys
- Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 90
- Synonyms:
- cloak-and-dagger
hole-and-corner meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
hole-and-corner in Tamil
- மறைவான, புதைவான, இரகசியமான
hole-and-corner in Malayalam
- clandestine, secret, secretive
- രഹസ്യമായ, ഗൂഢമായ, ഗുപ്തമായ, നിഗൂഢമായ, പ്രച്ഛന്നം, ആരുമറിയാത്ത
Synonyms of hole-and-corner
Questions about hole-and-corner
- What does hole-and-corner mean?
- Hole-and-corner means conducted in secret; clandestine.
- What is hole-and-corner in Tamil?
- Hole-and-corner in Tamil is மறைவான, புதைவான, இரகசியமான. See Hole-and-corner meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hole-and-corner?
- Hole-and-corner is an adjective.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hole-and-corner (page history and authors); hole-and-corner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hole-and-corner (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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