Meaning of HANGDOG
| Pronunciation: | | 'hang`dog
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- [adj] frightened into submission or compliance
- [adj] showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
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| | Synonyms: | | afraid(p), ashamed(p), browbeaten, bullied, cowed, guilty, intimidated, shamed, shamefaced |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Hang"dog`\, n.
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
\Hang"dog`\, a.
Low; sneaking; ashamed.
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
look. --Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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