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Synonyms for hole up


Grammar : Verb
Spell : hohl
Phonetic Transcription : hoʊl



Définition of hole up

Origin :
  • Old English hol "orifice, hollow place, cave, perforation," from Proto-Germanic *hul (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German hol, Middle Dutch hool, Old Norse holr, German hohl "hollow," Gothic us-hulon "to hollow out"), from PIE root *kel- (see cell).
  • As a contemptuous word for "small dingy lodging or abode" it is attested from 1610s. Meaning "a fix, scrape, mess" is from 1760. Obscene slang use for "vulva" is implied from mid-14c. Hole in the wall "small and unpretentious place" is from 1822; to hole up first recorded 1875. To need (something) like a hole in the head, applied to something useless or detrimental, first recorded 1944 in entertainment publications, probably a translation of a Yiddish expression, cf. ich darf es vi a loch in kop.
  • verb take refuge
Example sentences :
  • He took another step and plunged into a hole up to his shoulders.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • I'll go down and see, if you'll just fix that hole up for me.
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • Let's light out for the cap-rock an' hole up for a coupla days.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • What do you know about that hole up there, under that rock that is shaped like the nose of a dog?
  • Extract from : « A Woman at Bay » by Nicholas Carter
  • If she'd just wanted to hole up, that was where she would have had the best chance to do it successfully.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • Nolan believes she will hole up for the night somewhere above.
  • Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton
  • Watch the hole up under that stub of a limb while I tap on the trunk.
  • Extract from : « Winter » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • What at last brought her back was a yawn and his remark that he must "hole up" for the night.
  • Extract from : « Ewing\'s Lady » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • "We'll have to hole up somewhere for the night," Duncan said.
  • Extract from : « The World That Couldn't Be » by Clifford Donald Simak
  • I have found that our woodchucks, when they "hole up" in the fall, are full of fleas.
  • Extract from : « Under the Maples » by John Burroughs

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