hinderlin

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hinderlin (plural hinderlins)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of hinderling
    1. A worthless degenerate.
    2. (in the plural) The buttocks.
      • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. [], volume II, Edinburgh: [] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. []; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 206:
        We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; []
      • 1878, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge, page 58:
        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?
      • 1902, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark o’ the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called “Raiders”, page 1902:
        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!