Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mean, worthless person; a wretch.
- Cowardly; spiritless; base: as, a hilding fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A base, menial wretch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
wretch , a contemptible person
Etymologies
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Examples
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Giles Gosling, the cowardly hilding, refused me one on any terms whatever, lest, forsooth, he should suffer.
Kenilworth 2004
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If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect.
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Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him.
Ivanhoe 2004
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“Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on,” with hilding meaning “bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on,” with hilding meaning “bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on,” with hilding meaning “bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on,” with hilding meaning “bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect.
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` ` None of note enough to be put to ransom, '' answered the Captain; ` ` a set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master --- enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Ivanhoe 1892
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Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him.
Ivanhoe 1892
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