单词 | hidey-hole |
释义 | hidey-holen. Originally Scottish. A hiding place. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 1817 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 158/2 They're darned in some o' the queer hidy-holes about the rocks there. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch ix. 79 We got James..hauled out of his hidy-hole. 1842 R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (new ed.) 57/2 He had not been long in his hidy-hole, before the awful Etin came in. 1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly iii. 18 Tim Kelly's ‘hidie holes’, where he kept the weapons of his craft. 1920 Glasgow Herald 6 Dec. 10 The story of the Ballantrae smugglers' ‘hidie-hole’. 1927 Hutchinson's Myst. Story Mag. 9 xlviii. 50/2 So it's obvious that there may quite easily be another snug little hidy-hole which none of us knows of. 1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 261 A nice little six-inch hidey-hole where nobody would ever dream of looking for it. 1955 J. Thomas No Banners xxxiii. 330 There's a concrete hidey-hole underneath. 1959 P. H. Johnson Humbler Creation xlii. 286 So this was where he came,..into this snugness, this hidey-hole. 1969 I. Opie & 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817 |
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