What does "hangdog" mean?
Hangdog: A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
Additional senses
- 2., Low; sneaking; ashamed. The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Thackeray.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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