gazehound
See also: gaze-hound
English
WOTD – 26 August 2023
Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *ḱwṓ |
From gaze (noun) + hound.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪzhaʊnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪzˌhaʊnd/
- Hyphenation: gaze‧hound
Noun
gazehound (plural gazehounds)
- Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
- Coordinate term: scent hound
- 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61:
- And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.
- 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 250:
- I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.
Alternative forms
Translations
synonym of sighthound — see sighthound
References
- ^ “gaze-hound, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
- ^ “gazehound, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
Further reading
- sighthound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia