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Oh my word Hide, Hideous, Hideout, Hideaway
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don’t think.” –The Picture of Doran Gray by Oscar Wilde
“The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don’t think.” –The Picture of Doran Gray by Oscar Wilde
Hide functions as a verb and a noun. Hide means to put something or someone out to put out of sight, to conceal for shelter or protection, shield someone or something, to keep secret, to screen from display or view, to turn (the eyes or face) away in shame or anger; to remain out of sight, to seek protection or evade responsibility.
The verb variants of hide are hides, hiding, hidden, Hider is a person who is hiding away from one’s circle of family or friends, or from the police for a wrongdoing.
Hide as a noun refers to the skin of an animal whether raw or dressed, heavy skins, the skin of an animal.
Hideous is an adjective. If someone or something id hideous it means extremely ugly, unsightly, repulsive, disgusting, monstrous, reptilian
Hideous also refers to something extremely unpleasant, horrific, terrible, and horrendous in behaviour or character.
Some creatures are hideous. Hide nor hair is an idiomatic expression meaning no sign of something or someone; a trace or indication of someone.
After he lost in the 2004 General Elections, the party workers have seen neither hide nor hair of A B Vajpayee which is rare for being an Indian politician. “Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.” –Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Hideout and hideaway have a meaning in common: to be out of sight in times of crises by hiding. You go to a hideout to get away from the police.
You go the hideaway to escape from your family, friends or the police. However, the word hideout has a negative connotation or negative ring to it which is: you go to a hideout to escape from others because you have committed something illegal or unlawful. Bandit’s hideout is a cave. Hideaway is a place one wants to escape from everything in his or her life – financial troubles, family members, people from workplace, or from one’s social sphere.
Hideaway is a secret place where someone goes in order to escape from the routine life, and to unwind, or rejuvenate.
Himalayas is one of the hideaways for people to escape from stress and strain of material life.
Kovuuri G Reddy
