hedgeborn en · ADJ
Etymology
From hedge + born.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Born under a hedge or of low birth.
Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) growing in a hedge
The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose
1869, George Eliot, How Lisa Loved the King: