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Hyde|haɪd|
Name of the evil personality assumed by Dr. Jekyll in R. L. Stevenson's story, ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1886): used allusively in reference to the evil side of a person's character. (Cf. Jekyll.)
1887Puck (U.S.) XXII. 188 Is that you, Livingston?.. No, m'dearsh, it'sh Doct' Hyde. 1915‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xiv. 192 But we encountered surprisingly few Hydes. Nearly all were Jekylls. 1960Encounter Sept. 9/1 Normally we let Hyde loose only when for some reason he is socially acceptable. The Saturnalia existed to satisfy his demands. 1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) viii. 165 One ribald and agile boy (could it be I after all—the Hyde of my Jekyll?) managed to silhouette his foot. |