hedgeborn

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adjective

Born under a hedge or of low birth.

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Meanings

adjectivehedgeborn (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteBorn under a hedge or of low birth.

    Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine

    1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]
  2. not comparableobsoletegrowing in a hedge

    The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose

    1869, George Eliot, How Lisa Loved the King

Origin

From hedge + born.

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