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hinderling

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
hinderling, es; m.
A mean, base, contemptible person
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  • Occidentales Saxonici, scilicet execastre, habent in proverbio summi despectus, quod summa ira commotus, unus vocat alterum hinderling, i. ab omni honestate dejectum,

      L. Ed. C. 35; Th. i. 459, 36.
Etymology
[Orm. halde þe forr hinnderrling and forr well swiþe unnwresste, 4860. Halliwell in his Dictionary says under hilding 'the word is still in use in Devon, pronounced hilderling or hinderling.']
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  • hinderling, n.