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† ˈhedge-creeper Obs.
1. ‘One that skulks under hedges for bad purposes’ (J.); a hedge-bird; a sneaking rogue.
1548W. Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 140 A dozen or twenty of their hedge-creepers, horsemen that lay lurking thereby. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 11 A sneaking eauesdropper, a scraping hedgecreeper. 1688Bunyan Jerus. Sinner Saved (1886) 35 These poor, lame, maimed, blind, hedge-creepers and highwaymen, must come in. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 217 Rovers, Ruffian-Rogues, and Hedge-Creepers.
2. A hobgoblin, pixy.
c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iii. iii. 50 Wood-crepers, hedg⁓crepers, and the whyte and red fearye. |