Definition of Hound dog

1. Noun. Any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears.


Definition of Hound dog

1. Noun. (context: Southern US dialectal) Any hound, especially the bloodhound. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hound Dog

houlet
houlets
hoult
hoults
hoummos
hoummoses
hoummous
houmous
houmus
houmuses
hound
hound's-tongue
hound's-tooth check
hound's tongue
hound-dog facies
hound dog
hound dogs
hound shark
hound sharks
hounded
hounder
hounders
houndfish
houndfishes
hounding
houndings
hounds
houndsteeth
houndstooth
houndstooth check

Literary usage of Hound dog

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"His weapons were an ax, a club, a trap, and a hound dog; possibly he might own an old ... Let the negro ramble about with his hound dog and his war musket; ..."

2. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1918)
"Last ten years of his life he lived alone here with a hound dog and used to say ... "Yas, hound dog. Don't know what happened to it when the old man died. ..."

3. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"Blit- zen was the kind of a hound dog that every one liked to kick around — she was absolutely good for nothing, or so we all thought. ..."

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