hound
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder.
Proto-Germanic *hundaz
Proto-West Germanic *hund
Old English hund
Middle English hound
English hound
From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Doublet of canine.
Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”).
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 (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.
Inflected forms:
form: hounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
pos: noun
gloss: Any canine animal.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who seeks something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: "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."
gloss: A despicable person.
pos: noun
examples: Boy! false hound!
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.
'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
gloss: A houndfish.
pos: noun
gloss: To persistently harass doggedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
gloss: To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.
Derived words: Afghan hound
African Lion Hound
autograph hound
axehandle hound
axhandle hound
bagel hound
bagle hound
ban-hound
basset hound
Bavarian mountain hound
bearhound
beerhound
bitch hound
bitch-hound
bloodhound
boarhound
bookhound
boozehound
buckhound
Bulgarian Hound
chowhound
chow hound
coon hound
coonhound
corpse hounds
covert hound
covert-hound
deerhound
double-nosed Andean tiger hound
drag hound
draghound
drag-hound
elkhound
follow the hounds
foxhound
Gabriel's hounds
gazehound
gorehound
grayhound
greyhound
hare and hounds
harehound
heckhound
hell hound
hellhound
hell-hound
hound dog
hounder
houndfish
houndish
houndlike
houndling
houndly
hound of hell
houndsberry
hound shark
houndsman
hounds of war
hound's tongue
houndstongue
houndstooth
houndy
Hungarian hound
Ibizan Hound
jizzhound
lenshound
Lithuanian Hound
lyam-hound
minkhound
newshound
nursehound
otterhound
Otterhound
pack hound
painted hound
pole-hound
powderhound
powder hound
publicity hound
publicity-hound
puddle-hound
rock hound
rough-hound
rough hound
rumhound
scent hound
sea hound
shag-hound
sighthound
sinhound
sleuth-hound
sleuthhound
slot-hound
smooth hound
smuthound
staghound
swine-hound
swinehound
Tyrolean Hound
war hound
whorehound
wolfhound
clean as a hound's tooth
hold with the hare and run with the hounds
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
hound down
unhounded
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