4 February 2015

hidebound

[hahyd-bound]

adjective
1. narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible:
a hidebound pedant.
2. oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative:
a hidebound philosopher.
3. (of a horse, cow, etc.) having the back and ribs bound tightly by the hide.

Origin
1550-1560; hide2+ -bound1

Related forms

hideboundness, noun

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Examples from the web for hidebound
– And a lot of its buyers are hidebound truck guys, suspicious of change or fads.
– That’s amazing considering how hidebound truck buyers can be.
– Perhaps you are using satire to point out how impossibly hidebound is the traditional structure.

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Today’s aphorism

Constantly choosing the lesser of the two evils, is still choosing evil.

– Jerry Garcia

On this day

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4 February 1993 – Yugoslavia is dissolved and replaced by a union between Serbia and Montenegro.

4 February 2004 – Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg.