Words

HIDEBOUND

pronounced HAHYD-bound

adjective

narrow-minded and stubborn

1559, from hide "cattle skin" + past tense of bind. Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded 1603.

They were class-bound, hidebound and incapable of expressing their emotions
-- Jeremy Paxman, The English