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形容詞

hideling (comparative more hideling, superlative most hideling)

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

     [...] 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.

関連する語

• hidelings

語源 2

From hide +‎ -ling.

名詞

hideling (複数形 hidelings)

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