hide-bound

See also: hidebound

English

Adjective

hide-bound (comparative more hide-bound, superlative most hide-bound)

  1. Alternative form of hidebound
    • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde:
      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.
    • 1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:
      To such a hide-bound Great Western man as myself it did not at first prove a very congenial diet.
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