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hidey-hole

[ hahy-dee-hohl ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a nook or cranny used as a hiding hide hiding place.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hidey-hole1

First recorded in 1810–20; hide 1 + -ey 2 + hole
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Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

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Meanwhile, the experience had elicited some evocative prose from the note-taking author, such as this description of a splendid Antarctic sunset: “There was about it something so otherly and beyond that you wondered if you were really supposed to be here. It seemed almost as if we had trespassed into some hidey-hole where the gods go to drain their rainbows.”

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“For this first record, I’ll play Miss Alt-Pop Star and I’ll parade myself around and do photo shoots and whatnot, and then I’ll end up like Enya or Joanna Newsom, where I come out of my little hidey-hole every five years to drop an album,” she said.

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When Ophie showed Daddy her hidey-hole, he’d laughed.

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It was like the time she’d been in her hidey-hole back in Georgia and saw a snake sunning itself only to watch it uncurl.

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