"houndish" meaning in All languages combined

See houndish on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more houndish [comparative], most houndish [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|houndisch}} Middle English houndisch, {{suf|en|hound|ish}} hound + -ish, {{cog|nl|honds|t=doglike}} Dutch honds (“doglike”), {{cog|de|hündisch|t=houndish; doglike}} German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} houndish (comparative more houndish, superlative most houndish)
  1. Like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine. Related terms: houndly, houndy
    Sense id: en-houndish-en-adj-L5NAtoGr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

Download JSON data for houndish meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "houndisch"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English houndisch",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hound",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "hound + -ish",
      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "honds",
        "t": "doglike"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch honds (“doglike”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "hündisch",
        "t": "houndish; doglike"
      },
      "expansion": "German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more houndish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most houndish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "houndish (comparative more houndish, superlative most houndish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Wagner, Religion and art",
          "text": "This the \"free\" burgher of our Civilisation calls \"houndish fidelity,\" with a contemptuous accent on the \"hound.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Jack Lovejoy, Outworld Cats",
          "text": "[...] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight",
          "text": "Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror",
          "text": "Lucrezia laughed, a houndish laugh, almost a baying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine."
      ],
      "id": "en-houndish-en-adj-L5NAtoGr",
      "links": [
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ],
        [
          "doggish",
          "doggish"
        ],
        [
          "canine",
          "canine"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "houndly"
        },
        {
          "word": "houndy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "houndish"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "houndisch"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English houndisch",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hound",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "hound + -ish",
      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "honds",
        "t": "doglike"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch honds (“doglike”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "hündisch",
        "t": "houndish; doglike"
      },
      "expansion": "German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more houndish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most houndish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "houndish (comparative more houndish, superlative most houndish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "houndly"
    },
    {
      "word": "houndy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ish",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Wagner, Religion and art",
          "text": "This the \"free\" burgher of our Civilisation calls \"houndish fidelity,\" with a contemptuous accent on the \"hound.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Jack Lovejoy, Outworld Cats",
          "text": "[...] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight",
          "text": "Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror",
          "text": "Lucrezia laughed, a houndish laugh, almost a baying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ],
        [
          "doggish",
          "doggish"
        ],
        [
          "canine",
          "canine"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "houndish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.