Hangdog

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