ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hideling

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Hideling is an adjective meaning (dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.

Meaning

(dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

[...] 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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hidelings, hided, hidy, hide-bound, husht, hackish.

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