behindedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

behinded (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having a behind (of a specific type).
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Portrait" in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, 1898, p. 63,^[1]

     I am a kind of farthing dip,

     Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;

     A blue-behinded ape, I skip

     Upon the trees of Paradise.

   • 1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote,^[2]

     Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."

   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 23”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:

     There was a hoot from the distant train. It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.