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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /haʊnd/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English language hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-W Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgian Hond, German Hund, High german Low High german Hund, Danish hund, Faeroese hundur, Icelandic hundur, Norwegian Bokmål hund, Norwegian Nynorsk hund, and Swedish hund, from pre-Germanic *ḱuntós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene ( " large dog " ), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ ( " canis familiaris " ) (compare Welsh cwn ( " dogs " ), Tocharian B ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Armenian շուն ( šun ), Russian сука ( suka )). Doublet of canine.

Noun [edit]

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, peculiarly a breed with a good sense of smell adult for hunting other animals.
2. Whatsoever canine animal.
3. ( by extension ) Someone who seeks something.
   • 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Caryatid & Visitor, →ISBN, page 93,

     On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound idea I was, I would've signed appropriately.

   • 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sis's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, folio 483

     I nonetheless practice not know if he'due south taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he but wanted to help Anna.

4. ( by extension ) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
   • 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 yous alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]

     "She had a good many successors, John."

     "Y'all are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you lot accept always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."

5. A despicable person.

   • c. 1608–1609, 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 606515358, [Act Five, scene vi]:

     Boy! simulated hound!

   • 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Go Me and Other Uncanny Invitations

     'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.

6. A houndfish.

Usage notes [edit]

• In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog only the sense remains the same.

Derived terms [edit]

• Afghan hound
• autograph hound
• basset hound
• Bavarian mount hound
• bearhound
• bitch hound
• bloodhound
• boarhound
• bookhound
• boozehound
• buckhound
• Bulgarian Hound
• chowhound
• coonhound
• corpse hounds
• covert hound
• deerhound
• draghound
• follow the hounds
• foxhound
• Gabriel's hounds
• gazehound
• gorehound
• grayhound
• greyhound
• hare and hounds
• harehound
• hell hound
• hound dog
• houndfish
• houndish
• houndlike
• houndling
• houndly
• houndsberry
• hound shark
• houndsman
• hounds of war
• hound'southward natural language
• houndstooth
• houndy
• Hungarian hound
• Ibizan Hound
• lenshound
• Lithuanian Hound
• lyam-hound
• minkhound
• newshound
• nursehound
• Otterhound
• otterhound
• pack hound
• powder hound
• publicity hound
• rock hound
• scent hound
• shag-hound
• sighthound
• sinhound
• sleuth-hound
• sleuthhound
• slot-hound
• polish hound
• smuthound
• staghound
• Tyrolean Hound
• war hound
• whorehound
• wolfhound

• make clean as a hound's molar
• concord with the hare and run with the hounds
• run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

Translations [edit]

canis familiaris, hunting dog

Afrikaans: hond  (af) Armenian: բարակ  (hy) ( barak ) Eye Armenian: զաղառ ( załaṙ ) Bulgarian: хрътка  (bg) f ( hrǎtka ) Chinese: Mandarin: 獵犬  (zh), 猎犬  (zh) ( lièquǎn ) Czech: chrt  (cs) m Danish: hund  (da) c Dutch: hond  (nl) k ( general ), jachthond  (nl) m ( hunting ) Esperanto: hundo  (eo) Estonian: hagijas Faeroese: hundur  (fo) m , veiðihundur k Finnish: ajokoira  (fi) French: chien de chasse  (fr) one thousand , braque  (fr) m , molosse  (fr) g , chien courant  (fr) grand Galician: can de caza  (gl) g , sabuxo m Georgian: ძაღლი  (ka) ( ʒaɣli ), მონადირე ძაღლი ( monadire ʒaɣli ), ქოფაკი ( kopaḳi ) German: Hund  (de) one thousand ( general ), Jagdhund  (de) thousand ( hunting ) Greek: κυνηγόσκυλο  (el) northward ( kynigóskylo ), λαγωνικό  (el) n ( lagonikó ) Hindi: श्वान  (how-do-you-do) m ( śvān ) Hungarian: vadászkutya  (hu) Hunsrik: Jachthund k Icelandic: hundur  (is) m Ido: chasohundo  (io)

Irish: cú  (ga) m Erstwhile Irish: cú m Italian: bracco  (it) g Japanese: 猟犬  (ja) ( りょうけん, ryōken ), 狩犬 ( かりいぬ, kariinu ) Macedonian: 'рт m ( 'rt ), загар m ( zagar ) Malay: Jawi: انجيڠ ڤمبورو‎ Rumi: anjing pemburu Maori: kurī whakangau Norwegian: hund  (no) c Polish: gończy k , ogar  (pl) yard Portuguese: cão de caça m , sabujo  (pt) m Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ m ( cuna ) Russian: го́нчая  (ru) f ( gónčaja ) ( соба́ка ), охо́тничья соба́ка f ( oxótničʹja sobáka ) Scottish Gaelic: cù  (gd) m Serbo-Croation: Roman: kȇr  (sh) m Slovak: chrt  (sk) 1000 Spanish: (please verify) perro de caza m , (please verify) sabueso  (es) m Swedish: hund  (sv) c Tagalog: asong pangaso Turkmen: tazy Ukrainian: гонча́к 1000 ( hončák ), го́нчий собака f ( hónčyj sobaka ) Westward Frisian: hûn  (fy) c Yiddish: הונט‎ (yi) m ( hunt )

male person who constantly seeks the company of receptive females

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Heart English hounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb [edit]

hound (third-person singular simple nowadays hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)

1. ( transitive ) To persistently harass.

   He hounded me for weeks, but I was but unable to pay dorsum his loan.

   • 2019 April eleven, Marcel Theroux, "Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief", in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     More pertinently for the plot, another marked departure 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.

2. ( transitive ) To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
   • 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (page 162)

     We both thought nosotros saw what had the appearance to be a pull a fast one on, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.

Translations [edit]

Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.

Alternative forms [edit]

• hune

Substantive [edit]

hound (plural hounds)

1. ( nautical, in the plural ) Projections at the masthead or foremast, serving every bit a back up for the trestletrees and elevation to residuum on; foretop
2. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Anagrams [edit]

• Duhon, Hudon, hundo, no duh

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Middle English [edit]

Culling forms [edit]

• honde, hounde, hund, hunde, hond, hownd, hownde, hwond

Etymology [edit]

From Old English language hund

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /huːnd/, /hund/

Noun [edit]

hound (plural houndes or hounden )

1. dog, hound ( The canid Canis lupus familiaris )
   1. A pet domestic dog; a canis familiaris kept for companionship.
   2. A hunting or sporting dog; a hound.
   3. ( specifically ) A male or fully-grown dog.
2. A strong term of corruption, especially used against enemies of one's organized religion
3. ( rare ) A heraldic portrayal of a dog.
4. ( rare ) The forces of evil; the infernal army.
5. ( rare ) Sirius ( star )

Usage notes [edit]

The general discussion for "dog" is hound; dogge is vaguely derogatory and has a sense of "mongrel" or "cur".

Derived terms [edit]

• hound fysch
• hounden
• houndesberye
• houndestonge

Descendants [edit]

• English: hound
  • Northumbrian: hoond, hund
• Scots: hoond, hund

References [edit]

• "hǒund, n.", in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-xi.

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hound

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