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behinded

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Having a behind (of a specific type).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable

Examples

  • 1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote, Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."
  • 1969, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, This Child's Gonna Live, excerpted in William H. Banks, Jr. (ed.), Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary, New York: Harlem Moon, 2010, Then she was gonna tell him where his old bleached-out papa come from and his weak-behinded mamma too, if she could stomach herself getting down that low.

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History

Etymology

From behind + -ed.