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hideling ‎(comparative more hideling, superlative most hideling)

(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.

From hide +‎ -ling.

hideling ‎(plural hidelings)