4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hangdog \Hang"dog`\ (-d[o^]g`), n. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, a. Low; sneaking; ashamed. [1913 Webster] The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: hangdog adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: {guilty}, {shamefaced}, {shamed}] 2: frightened into submission or compliance [syn: {browbeaten}, {bullied}, {cowed}, {intimidated}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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