Meaning of hinderlin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of hinderling.
   Scotland
2. A worthless degenerate.
   Scotland
3. The buttocks.
   Scotland, in-plural

Examples

“How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?”

“We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; […]”

“And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage—in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins?”

“My certes! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and—weel, Davie Veitch will no be there!”

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