Meaning of hinderling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A worthless, degenerate person or animal.
   British, dialectal
2. The buttocks; the posterior.
   dated, 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?”

“An animal you deem good for nothing, you may term a hinderling.”

“[…] from which the West Saxons, namely the men of Exeter have a saying of the greatest contempt, in that when moved by the highest wrath they call one another a hinderling, that is, one sunk down from all honor.”

“"How? How do I know? Know that you are there or know that you are a rossamünderling? An ouranin? A manikin? A hinderling? A pink-lips? A fake-foe? […]"”

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