Word.ws English Dictionary

houndling

houndling noun: a small or young hound.

Noun

houndling (plural houndlings)

  1. A small or young hound.
    • Kidlings thus, and the goats I beheld, and the hound and the houndling, Alike in the make: wonder were not the greater and small I compar'd, Vainly, for Rome, magnificent Rome!1840, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 169, page 406

Forms of houndling

pluralhoundlings

Origin of houndling

From hound + -ling.

Questions about houndling

What does houndling mean?
Houndling means a small or young hound.
What part of speech is houndling?
Houndling is a noun.
What is the plural of houndling?
The plural of houndling is houndlings.

Words near houndling in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: houndling (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “houndling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/houndling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.