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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : hej |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɛdʒ |
Definition of hedge
Origin :- Old English hecg, originally any fence, living or artificial, from West Germanic *khagja (cf. Middle Dutch hegge, Dutch heg, Old High German hegga, German Hecke "hedge"), from PIE *kagh- "to catch, seize; wickerwork, fence" (cf. Latin caulae "a sheepfold, enclosure," Gaulish caio "circumvallation," Welsh cae "fence, hedge"). Related to Old English haga "enclosure, hedge" (see haw). Figurative sense of "boundary, barrier" is from mid-14c. Prefixed to any word, it "notes something mean, vile, of the lowest class" [Johnson], from contemptuous attributive sense of "plying one's trade under a hedge" (hedge-priest, hedge-lawyer, hedge-wench, etc.), a usage attested from 1530s.
- noun boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants
- verb avoid, dodge
- verb enclose
- A thrush sat in the hedge, and she was singing her morning song.
- Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
- Whose cow is that at the top of the ditch, half through my hedge?
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- They heard only a crashing of boughs, the parting of the hedge.
- Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- She looked at him for a few moments, and then she threw the sally rod into the hedge.
- Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
- When the horn was sounded, he merely drew into the hedge and did not look round.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- The cotton merchant, in making a hedge, would proceed in this fashion.
- Extract from : « The Fabric of Civilization » by Anonymous
- I was off to the hedge, Charlotte picking herself up and scurrying after.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- The moment they were past we were through the hedge and after them.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- Through a gap in the hedge we could see the party setting off down the road.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- In a couple of weeks I'll see your light shining through the hedge of an evening.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
Synonyms for hedge
- barrier
- be noncommittal
- beat around the bush
- block
- blow hot and cold
- border
- bush
- cage
- confine
- coop
- cop a plea
- cop out
- corral
- duck
- edge
- enclosure
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- fudge
- girdle
- give the run around
- guard
- hedgerow
- hem and haw
- hem in
- hinder
- hurdle
- immure
- jive
- obstruct
- pass the buck
- pen
- prevaricate
- protection
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- quickset
- restrict
- ring
- run around
- screen
- shilly-shally
- shrubbery
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- siege
- sit on the fence
- stall
- stonewall
- surround
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- thicket
- waffle
- windbreak
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