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Definition of Hangdog
1. Adjective. Showing a sense of guilt. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"
Similar to: Ashamed
Derivative terms: Guilt, Guiltiness, Shamefacedness
2. Adjective. Frightened into submission or compliance.
Definition of Hangdog
1. n. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
2. a. Low; sneaking; ashamed.
Definition of Hangdog
1. Noun. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. ¹
2. Adjective. Low; sneaking; ashamed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hangdog
1. a sneaky person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hangdog
Literary usage of Hangdog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"Clad in mouse-colour, with black and white pourpoint, and, above, a hangdog,
flaccid face, baggy-eyed, its flesh like lard, this eldest of the tainted ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"hang vitty, the toer o' un's a cocked up to much." hangdog-LOOK [ang-daug-leok-],
sb. A vile expression. Me, gwain to have thick hangdog-looking fuller! ..."
3. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring (1904)
"I give to my son Jonathan Warner these pieces of land: 6 acres which I bought of
Joseph Rily, also 6 acres at a place called hangdog, also 2 acres in the ..."
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