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hide-bound
hide-bound
See also: hidebound
English
Adjective
hide-bound (comparative more hide-bound, superlative most hide-bound)
- Alternative form of hidebound
- 1885: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- O, 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.
- 1885: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde