hidy-hole
Britishnoun
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He retreats to Neverland through a willow-branch hidy-hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
An octopus changed colors as I approached, perhaps annoyed that its hidy-hole beneath a rock wasn’t fooling anybody.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2019
In the end Arya lured her pursuer, as many initially expected, to the hidy-hole we glimpsed two weeks ago, when her extinguishing of the candle presaged her plan of attack.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2016
She squatted down and peered into them, probably in search of a hidy-hole.
From Time Magazine Archive
An’ mony’s the puir body, baith gentle and simple, that I’ve gien food an’ shelter to whae was very likely to hae perished o’ cauld an’ hunger, but for the hidy-hole.
From Hunted and Harried by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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