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"raw_glosses": [
"(of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of trees"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1644, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, archived from the original on 2016-06-01:",
"text": "And how can a man teach with autority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a Doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licencer to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humor which he calls his judgement.",
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},
{
"ref": "1850 April 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. III. Downing Street.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 83:",
"text": "In fact, such unfortunate persons have no resource but to become what we call Pedants; to ensconce themselves in a safe world of habitudes, of applicable or inapplicable traditions; not coveting, rather avoiding the general daylight of common-sense, as very extraneous to them and their procedure; by long persistence in which course they become Completed Pedants, hidebound, impenetrable, able to defy the hostile extraneous element; an alarming kind of men",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 31:",
"text": "Oh, 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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1932, Virginia Woolf, “The Niece of an Earl”, in The Common ReaderFirst and Second Series Combined in One Volume, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, published 1948, →OCLC:",
"text": "But things change; class distinctions were not always so hard and fast as they have now become. The Elizabethan age was far more elastic in this respect than our own; we, on the other hand, are far less hide-bound than the Victorians.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 91:",
"text": "That optimistic baby had come on so like the private eye in any long-ago radio drama, believing all you needed was grit, resourcefulness, exemption from hidebound cops' rules, to solve any great mystery.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "After earlier years when the family had been accused of being stuffy and hidebound, members now started behaving as though they were in a never-ending soap opera.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible."
],
"links": [
[
"Stubborn",
"stubborn"
],
[
"narrow-minded",
"narrow-minded"
]
],
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"(figurative, of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible."
],
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"of a person"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas\nhath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Niggardly; penurious; stingy."
],
"links": [
[
"Niggardly",
"niggardly"
],
[
"penurious",
"penurious"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "hide-bound"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "bound with the hide of an animal",
"word": "cruachraicneach"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎršav",
"sense": "of an animal, having skin adhering closely to the ribs and back",
"word": "мършав"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "of an animal, having skin adhering closely to the ribs and back",
"word": "trangskinnet"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ograničen",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "ограничен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tesnogrǎd",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "тесногръд"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "borniert"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "engstirnig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "engherzig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "csökönyös"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "maradi"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "vaskalapos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "begyepesedett"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "cúngintinneach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "stóinsithe"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "stalcánta"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "forstokket"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "fordomsfull"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "cabeça dura"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "intransigente"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "austero"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamšélyj",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "замше́лый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "maxrovyj",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "махровый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fanatičnyj",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "фанатичный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kosnyj",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "косный"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "stubborn, narrow-minded",
"word": "dar kafalı"
}
],
"word": "hidebound"
}
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