hinderlin

hinderlin (plural hinderlins)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of hinderling
   1. worthless degenerate
      • 1808, Joseph Strutt, ‎Sir Walter Scott, Queenhoo Hall: A Romance:

        How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?

   2. (in the plural) buttocks
      • 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:

        We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlins.

      • 1878, Michael Scott, The cruise of the Midge., page 58:

        And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage — in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins ?

      • 1902, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark O' the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called "Raiders", page 1902:

        My certes ! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and — weel, Davie Veitch will no be there !