hilding

[ hil-ding ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. a contemptible person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hilding¹

1575–85; perhaps to be identified with Middle English heldinge, hilding bending, swerving aside, Old English hylding, equivalent to hyld ( an ) to bend, incline + -ing -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Dost thou dispute with me, Alexander carry the prating hilding forth.

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Two children might be seen playing about the garden from sunrise to sunset, but they were not old Hilding's children.

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Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him.

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As we have seen, he is in Saxo the progenitor of the Hilding Hildeger.

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Hilding did not understand such mode of answering, and at length rebuked Frithiof for his indifference.

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