释义 |
hidy-hole orig. Sc.|ˈhaɪdɪhəʊl| Also hidey-, hidie-. [Alteration of hiding-hole: see hiding vbl. n.1 4.] A hiding-place.
1817Blackw. Mag. Nov. 158/2 They're darned in some o' the queer hidy-holes about the rocks there. 1828D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch ix. 79 We got James..hauled out of his hidy-hole. 1870R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes 91 He had not been long in his hidy-hole, before the awful Etin came in. 1896S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly iii. 18 Tim Kelly's ‘hidie holes’, where he kept the weapons of his craft. 1920Glasgow Herald 6 Dec. 10 The story of the Ballantrae smugglers' ‘hidie-hole’. 1927Hutchinson's Myst. Story Mag. IX. xlviii. 50/2 So it's obvious that there may quite easily be another snug little hidy-hole which none of us knows of. 1934D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 261 A nice little six-inch hidey-hole where nobody would ever dream of looking for it. 1955J. Thomas No Banners xxxiii. 330 There's a concrete hidey-hole underneath. 1959P. H. Johnson Humbler Creation xlii. 286 So this was where he came,..into this snugness, this hidey-hole. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 157 Those who are still searching..rush to the places where they were last seen, thinking that they will be near the hidy-hole. |