hole-and-corner

1. 1.

   relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life

   “a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community”

   Synonymshole-in-corner

   Similarinsignificant
2. 2.

   conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

   “clandestine intelligence operations”

   “cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines”

   “hole-and-corner intrigue”

   “secret missions”

   “a secret agent”

   “secret sales of arms”

   “surreptitious mobilization of troops”

   “an undercover investigation”

   “underground resistance”

   Synonymsclandestinecloak-and-daggerhugger-muggerhush-hushsecretsurreptitiousundercoverunderground

   Similarcovert

Questions about hole-and-corner

What does hole-and-corner mean?

hole-and-corner means "relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hole-and-corner?

hole-and-corner has 5 syllables: ho-le--and--cor-ner. The stress falls on "and-".

What is another word for hole-and-corner?

Close synonyms include hole-in-corner, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hole-and-corner a common word?

hole-and-corner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.