Meaning of hide-bound | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“O, 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.”

“To such a hide-bound Great Western man as myself it did not at first prove a very congenial diet.”

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