|jekələn(d)|hīd also |jēk- or |jāk- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized J&H
Etymology: after Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the two sides of the split personality of the chief character in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson died 1894 Scottish writer
: of, relating to, or resembling a person who leads a double life or who has two apparently distinct characters one of which is good and the other evil
the hooded bandit was a Jekyll-and-Hyde character — M.D.Portman