JEKYLL


Meaning of JEKYLL in English

[ 'dʒɛk(ə)l ]

■ noun (in phr. a ~ and Hyde ) a person displaying alternately good and evil personalities.

Origin

after the central character in Robert Louis Stevenson's story The Strange Case of Dr ~ and Mr Hyde (1886).

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