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heckhound

heckhound is the rare form of hellhound.

Meaning of hellhound

Noun

hellhound (plural hellhounds)

  1. A demonic dog of hell, typically of unnatural size, strength or speed, with black fur, glowing eyes, and ghostly or phantom characteristics.
    • From forth the kennell of thy wombe hath crept / A Hell-hound that doth hunt vs all to death:c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (figuratively) An evil or unpleasant person.
    Synonyms:
    hound of hell

Forms of heckhound

pluralheckhounds

Origin of heckhound

From heck + hound.

Questions about heckhound

What is heckhound the rare form of?
Heckhound is the rare form of hellhound.

Words near heckhound in the dictionary

  1. Heckert
  2. Heckerts
  3. heckfire
  4. Heckford
  5. Heckfordbridge
  6. heckhound
  7. heckhounds
  8. heckin
  9. heckin'
  10. hecking
  11. Heckingham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heckhound (page history and authors); hellhound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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