hilding

[ hil-ding ]

/ ˈhɪl dɪŋ /

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noun Archaic.

a contemptible person.

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Origin of hilding

1575–85; perhaps to be identified with Middle English heldinge, hilding bending, swerving aside, Old English hylding, equivalent to hyld(an) to bend, incline + -ing-ing¹

Words nearby hilding

Hildebrand, Hildegarde, Hildegard of Bingen, Hildegard von Bingen, Hildesheim, hilding, hill, Hilla, Hillary, hillbilly, hillbilly music

How to use hilding in a sentence

Dost thou dispute with me, Alexander carry the prating hilding forth.
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10)|Francis Beaumont
Two children might be seen playing about the garden from sunrise to sunset, but they were not old Hilding's children.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)|Various
Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him.
Ivanhoe|Walter Scott
As we have seen, he is in Saxo the progenitor of the Hilding Hildeger.
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3|Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D.

Hilding did not understand such mode of answering, and at length rebuked Frithiof for his indifference.
Myths of the Norsemen|H. A. Guerber