HOLE AND CORNER

Definition: HOLE AND CORNER

1. Clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] ``The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.'' --Dickens.

Specialty Definition: HOLE AND CORNER

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hole and Corner (business). Underhand and secret. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: HOLE AND CORNER

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Concealment	Obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.
Inquiry	Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.
Place	Ins and outs; every hole and corner.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expression: HOLE AND CORNER

Anagrams: HOLE AND CORNER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-l-n-n-o-o-r-r"
	-4 letters: channeled, channeler, chlordane, colonnade, noncareer, nonreader, olecranon, rechannel, recolored.
	-5 letters: anchored, calender, canoodle, chaldron, chandler, chlordan, coholder, colander, coleader, condoler, condoner, conelrad, cornered, declarer, dehorner, drencher, enhaloed, enhanced, enhancer, hardcore, hardener, honorand, larcener, oleander, ordnance, ranchero, rancored, recoaled, rehandle, reharden, reloader, reloaned.
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Alternative Orthography: HOLE AND CORNER

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Expression using "HOLE AND CORNER": every hole and corner. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.