Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hangdog"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, n.
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, a.
Low; sneaking; ashamed.
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
look. --Thackeray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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