"hound dog" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-hound dog.ogg [Australia] Forms: hound dogs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hound dog (plural hound dogs)
  1. (Southern US, dialectal) Any hound, especially the bloodhound. Tags: Southern-US, dialectal Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Hunting dogs Translations (any hound): ajokoira (Finnish), metsästyskoira (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-hound_dog-en-noun-Y8tdV-2n Disambiguation of People: 100 0 Disambiguation of Hunting dogs: 71 29 Categories (other): Southern US English Disambiguation of 'any hound': 100 0
  2. (slang) A promiscuous man. Tags: slang Translations (promiscuous man): pukki (Finnish), huoripukki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-hound_dog-en-noun-SQ6hrH7E Disambiguation of 'promiscuous man': 0 100

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hound dog meaning in English (2.3kB)

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