Hangdog

Definitions: Hangdog

Hangdog

Adjective

1. Showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater.

2. Frightened into submission or compliance.

Date "hangdog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references)

Synonyms: Hangdog

Synonyms: browbeaten (adj), bullied (adj), cowed (adj), guilty (adj), intimidated (adj), shamed (adj), shamefaced (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sullenness	Verb: be sullen; Adjective: sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hangdog

English words defined with "hangdog": guilty ♦ shamed, shamefaced. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hangdog": Hangdog Look. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Black Day at Hangdog [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Hangdog (reference) Hangdog (Dial Books for Young Readers) (reference) Hangdog Reef (reference) Hangdog Reef: Poems Sailing the Great Lakes (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Hangdog Heaven (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Hangdog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Hangdog" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	91.67%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Expressions using "hangdog": hangdog look ♦ have a hangdog look. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "hangdog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		veshvarur (lop-eared), prej qeni të rrahur, i turpëruar (ashamed, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliated, shamefaced, stained). (various references)

Bulgarian		гузен (guilty, mean), виновен (found guilty, guilty, mean, peccant), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, dastard, ratface, recreant, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog). (various references)

Farsi		مقصر (Culpable, Culprit, Guilty), ادم خبیث , شرمنده وترسو, شرمگین . (various references)

French		avoir un air de chien battu (have a hangdog look). (various references)

German		Galgenvogel (gallows bird). (various references)

Greek		ύπουλοσ (catty, insidious, insinuate, perfidious, shady, sneak, sneaker, sneaky, underhand, underhanded), πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vile, vulgar). (various references)

Italian		avvilito (crestfallen, miserable, mopish, spiritless). (various references)

Pig Latin		angdoghay.(various references)

Portuguese		deprimido (blue, broken down, dejected, depressed, dumpish, dumpy, hagridden, heavy-laden, hipped, low, low-spirited, melanoma, subdued), cabana (bothy, cabana, cabin, cot, cottage, crib, hovel, hut, hutch, Lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed). (various references)

Russian		виноватый (guilty), низкий (deep, dishonourable, give away, ignoble, infamous, keen, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, nefarious, picayune, poor, scummy, scurvy, short, stinkard, vile, wormy), пристыженный (ashamed, shamefaced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		utučen (blue, chap-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, heartsick, low, low-spirited, spiritless), potišten (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down in the mouth, down-hearted, heavy-laden, moody, mopish, unhappy). (various references)

Spanish		avergonzado (abashed, ashamed, embarrassed, shamefaced). (various references)

Swedish		skamsen (ashamed, mean, shamefaced), galgfågel (gallows bird). (various references)

Turkish		sinsi tip (sneak), sefil (abject, beggarly, dead end, destitute, down and out, down at heels, miserable, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, sordid, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, mean, poky, ratty, seedy, shabby, sleazy, slovenly, untidy), alçak kimse (caitiff, dastard, fink, rascal). (various references)

Ukranian		мерзенний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, atrocious, caitiff, ghoulish, hateful, heinous, nasty, nefandous, nefarious, niddering, odious, sordid, villainous, wretched), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references)

Vietnamese		hổ thẹn ti tiện, xấu hổ (ashamed, coy, discreditable), người ti tiện, người lén lút hèn hạ, người đê tiện (brock, hat, reptile), lén lút hèn hạ, đê tiện (abject, contemptible, ignoble, ignominious, lousily, plebeian, scabbily, scabby, scaly, scurvy, servile, shabby, small). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hangdog": hangdogs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hangdog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hagdom, Hamgyong, Hanadib, hando, hangd, Hangkow, Hargadon, Henggao. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-g-h-n-o"
	-1 letter: hagdon.
	-2 letters: donga, gonad, hogan, honda.
	-3 letters: agog, agon, dago, dang, dona, dong, gang, goad, gong, hand, hang, hogg, hong, nogg.
	-4 letters: ado, ago, and, dag, dah, dog, don, gad, gag, gan, goa, god, had, hag, hao, hod, hog, hon, nag, nah, nod, nog, noh.
	-5 letters: ad, ag, ah, an, do, go, ha, ho, na, no, od, oh, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-g-h-n-o"
	+1 letter: hangdogs.
	+5 letters: godfathering, watchdogging.
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