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houndish

houndish adjective: like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine.

Adjective

houndish (comparative more houndish, superlative most houndish)

  1. Like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine.
    • This the "free" burgher of our Civilisation calls "houndish fidelity," with a contemptuous accent on the "hound."1897, Richard Wagner, Religion and art
    • [...] houndish face was anything but memorable, yet Verna felt certain she had seen it somewhere before. "Delfred! Delfred! Delfred! Woof! Woof! Woof!" continued the chant outside the garden wall.1994, Jack Lovejoy, Outworld Cats

Examples of houndish in a sentence

  • Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight:
  • Lucrezia laughed, a houndish laugh, almost a baying.2010, Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror:

Forms of houndish

comparativemore houndish
superlativemost houndish

Origin of houndish

From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”).

Questions about houndish

What does houndish mean?
Houndish means like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine.
How do you use houndish in a sentence?
Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.
What part of speech is houndish?
Houndish is an adjective.

Words near houndish in the dictionary

  1. houndfish
  2. houndfishes
  3. hounding
  4. hounding down
  5. houndings
  6. houndish
  7. houndlike
  8. houndling
  9. houndlings
  10. houndly
  11. houndman

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