Meanings
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving a behind (of a specific type).
1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote, Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."
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I am a kind of farthing dip, Unfriendly to the nose and eyes; A blue-behinded ape, I skip Upon the trees of Paradise.
1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Portrait”, in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1898, page 63There was a hoot from the distant train. It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 23”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC1969, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, This Child's Gonna Live, excerpted in William H. Banks, Jr. (ed.), Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary, New York: Harlem Moon, 2010, Then she was gonna tell him where his old bleached-out papa come from and his weak-behinded mamma too, if she could stomach herself getting down that low.
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