hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: hounds
Etymology: From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from pre-Germanic *ḱuntós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”). Doublet of canine.
In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.
Senses: glosses: A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
glosses: Any canine animal.
examples: text: On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
ref: 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 93:
text: I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
ref: 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster,, →ISBN, page 483:
glosses: Someone who seeks something.
examples: text: "She had a good many successors, John."
"You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
ref: 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108, "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]
glosses: A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
examples: text: Boy! false hound!
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
text: I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:
text: 'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
ref: 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations:
synonyms: cur
glosses: A despicable person.
glosses: A houndfish.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from hound
word: Afghan hound
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word: African Lion Hound
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word: autograph hound
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word: axehandle hound
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word: axhandle hound
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word: bagel hound
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word: bagle hound
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word: ban-hound
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word: basset hound
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word: Bavarian mountain hound
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word: bearhound
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word: beerhound
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word: bitch hound
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word: bitch-hound
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word: bloodhound
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word: boarhound
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word: bookhound
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word: boozehound
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word: buckhound
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word: Bulgarian Hound
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word: chowhound
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word: chow hound
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word: coon hound
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word: coonhound
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word: corpse hounds
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word: covert hound
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word: covert-hound
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word: deerhound
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word: double-nosed Andean tiger hound
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word: drag hound
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word: draghound
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word: drag-hound
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word: elkhound
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word: follow the hounds
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word: foxhound
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word: Gabriel's hounds
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word: gazehound
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word: gorehound
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word: grayhound
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word: greyhound
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word: hare and hounds
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word: harehound
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word: heckhound
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word: hell hound
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word: hellhound
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word: hell-hound
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word: hound dog
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word: hounder
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word: houndfish
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word: houndish
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word: houndlike
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word: houndling
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word: houndly
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word: hound of hell
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word: houndsberry
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word: hound shark
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word: houndsman
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word: hounds of war
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word: houndstongue
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word: hound's tongue
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word: houndstooth
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word: houndy
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word: Hungarian hound
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word: Ibizan Hound
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word: jizzhound
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word: lenshound
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word: Lithuanian Hound
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word: lyam-hound
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word: minkhound
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word: newshound
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word: nursehound
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word: otterhound
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word: Otterhound
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word: pack hound
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word: painted hound
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word: pole-hound
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word: powderhound
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word: powder hound
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word: publicity hound
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word: publicity-hound
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word: rock hound
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word: rough-hound
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word: rough hound
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word: rumhound
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word: scent hound
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word: sea hound
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word: shag-hound
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word: sighthound
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word: sinhound
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word: sleuth-hound
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word: sleuthhound
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word: slot-hound
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word: smooth hound
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word: smuthound
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word: staghound
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word: swine-hound
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word: swinehound
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word: Tyrolean Hound
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word: war hound
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word: whorehound
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word: wolfhound
sense: Expressions containing hound
word: clean as a hound's tooth
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word: hold with the hare and run with the hounds
sense: Expressions containing hound
word: run with the hare and hunt with the hounds