Wednesday's Random Slang-o-rama: Latibulate

For this week's Slang-o-rama offering, I yearned to highlight a really obscure word. The Little Book of Lost Words by Joe Gillard did not let me down.

Latibulate. 

Any guesses as to what it means? (No peeking! No Googling!)

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Allow me to enlighten you (or rather, we'll let Gillard do that): Latibulate is a 17th century English word that means "to hide in a corner." What a cool word, right?? 

I spot a little latibulation goin' on...
The Eavesdropper by Jean Carolus (1880) - Sotheby's New York, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29501650

I dug around online... and, wow, obscure I wanted, and obscure I got. Slang Define notes this is "among a group of words with the root latib, all used to describe the action or place of hiding." A group of words? I can't even think of one. So, I explored a little more. A Way with Words provides some insight with a post on latibulum that says:

The Latin word latibulum means a "refuge or hiding place of animals." It derives from the same root that gives us the English word latent, meaning "hidden." A 17th-century dictionary defines the now-rare English word latibulate as "privily to hide oneself in a corner."

A little more was revealed in this pandemic-lockdown era post from Writing Redux. This was about all I could find, EXCEPT there is a very short (and rather catchy) song by Scotland singer/songwriter Adam Donaldson titled "Latibulate" (!!) which you can hear (and watch) below. Maybe this word is getting ready to step out of obscurity, eh?

(Privily, I shall latibulate now.)