hangdog

4 definitions found

hangdog - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hangdog \Hang"dog`\ (-d[o^]g`), n.
     A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
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  Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, a.
     Low; sneaking; ashamed.
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           The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
           look.                                    --Thackeray.
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hangdog - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hangdog
      adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog
             and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric
             Linklater [syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced,
             shamed]
      2: frightened into submission or compliance

hangdog - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "hangdog":
     abashed, abject, ashamed, backscratching, beggarly, blushing,
     bootlicking, chagrined, chapfallen, cowering, crawling,
     crestfallen, cringing, crouching, crushed, embarrassed, fawning,
     flattering, footlicking, groveling, humbled, humiliated,
     ingratiating, mealymouthed, mortified, obeisant, obsequious,
     on bended knee, out of countenance, parasitic, prostrate,
     red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sniveling, sponging,
     sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish,
     truckling