"boozehound" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-boozehound.wav [Southern-England] Forms: boozehounds [plural]
Etymology: booze + hound Etymology templates: {{compound|en|booze|hound}} booze + hound Head templates: {{en-noun}} boozehound (plural boozehounds)
  1. (informal) alcoholic, drunkard Tags: informal Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking, People Synonyms: drunkard Translations (alcoholic): Schnapsdrossel [feminine] (German), fyllehund [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), drukkenbolt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dranker [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fyllik [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), beberrón [masculine] (Spanish), borrachín [masculine] (Spanish), beodo [masculine] (Spanish), esponja [colloquial, feminine, figuratively] (Spanish), fyllehund [common-gender] (Swedish), alkoholist [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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