hideling

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

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

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

Etymology From hide + -ling.

Dialectal A person or thing given to hiding itself.

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