hilding

hilding
/hil"ding/, n. Archaic.
a contemptible person.
[1575-85; perh. to be identified with ME heldinge, hilding bending, swerving aside, OE hylding, equiv. to hyld(an) to bend, incline + -ing -ING1]

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