hinderlin

English

Noun

hinderlin (plural hinderlins)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of hinderling
   1. A worthless degenerate.
      • 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section VII. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:

        How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?

   2. (in the plural) The buttocks.
      • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 206:

        We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; […]

      • 1878, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge, page 58:

        And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage—in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins?

      • 1902, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark o’ the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called “Raiders”, page 1902:

        My certes! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and—weel, Davie Veitch will no be there!