Definitions for hole-and-corner

hole-and-corner hole-and-cor·ner

Spelling: [hohl-uh n-kawr-ner]
IPA: /ˈhoʊl ənˈkɔr nər/

Hole-And-Corner is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1020 anagrams from letters in hole-and-corner (--acdeehlnnoorr).

Definitions for hole-and-corner

adjective

  1. secretive; clandestine; furtive:
  2. trivial and colorless:

Origin of hole-and-corner

First recorded in 1825-35

Examples for hole-and-corner

There was to be no hole-and-corner business about the great coup.

I request Geh'-bauer to send me two tickets, as some of my friends wish to attend your hole-and-corner music.

It was obvious that we had many friends, that we were not going to be tried in a hole-and-corner fashion.

She knows the Neapolitans, and does not value them but for hole-and-corner defence.

I want no hole-and-corner confession, which may afterwards be useless, but an open avowal before the most approved witnesses.

"Oh, it is a hole-and-corner business, and God only knows why," he answered.

But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and-corner Buffery!

The Swiss had had enough of electioneering tricks, hole-and-corner revolutions, and paper compacts.

No one could say that it was a hole-and-corner business, far less that the assembly was packed.

As being preferable to hole-and-corner meetings in friends' houses——!

Word Value for hole-and-corner
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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