hidels

hidels

1. plural of hidel

• hidles, Diehls, sheild, hields, Shield, shield, delish, Dishel, deshil, ledish

• hiddels, hiddils, hiddlis, hidelis, hidils, hidlis, hudlis, hudlys, hydels
• hudles, huydeles, huydels (Southern, West Midland)
• hiddillis, hyddillis, hyddlys, hydlis, hydlys (Early Scots)

Inherited from Old English hȳdels; compare hidel. By surface analysis, hiden (“to hide”) +‎ -els.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhidəls/, /ˈhid(ə)ləs/, /ˈhiː-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhydəls/, /ˈhyd(ə)ləs/, /ˈhyː-/ (Southern, West Midland)

hidels (uncountable)

1. A hiding place or refuge.
2. (with in) Hiding, secrecy.

• It is often unclear whether a given form should be interpreted as this word or the plural of hidel; forms have been placed here unless they clearly functioned as a plural.

• Middle Scots: hiddillis
  • Scots: hiddles

• “hī̆del(s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “hiddil(l)is, hidlis, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.