Hedgeborn

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Born under a hedge or of low birth. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine"

  2. 2
    growing in a hedge not-comparable, obsolete

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

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"Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine"

Etymology

From hedge + born.

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