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hangdog

hangdog is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
  2. 2., Low; sneaking; ashamed. The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Thackeray.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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