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Webster 1913 Edition

Hangdog

Hang′dogˊ

(-dŏgˊ)

,

Noun.

A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

Hang′dogˊ

,

Adj.

Low; sneaking; ashamed.

The poor colonel went out of the room with a

hangdog

look.

Thackeray.