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hidebound

adj
/ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/UK

Etymology

From hide (“animal skin”, noun) + bound (“tied”, adjective).

  1. derived from bombus — “a humming or buzzing”
  2. derived from bombitō — “hum, buzz”
  3. derived from bondir — “leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”
  4. inherited from *bounden✻
  5. compounded as hidebound — “hide + bound”

Definitions

  1. Bound with the hide of an animal.

    • Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.
    • But no matter where their place of residence, they were always accompanied by the hidebound chest that held the family papers.

  2. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or…

    Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.

    • Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.

  3. Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Stubborn

      Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.

      • Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant blatant pedant.

    2. Niggardly

      Niggardly; penurious; stingy.

      • 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?

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Derived

hideboundness, unhidebound

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hidebound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA