Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hound, resembling a small staghound, used for hunting bucks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hound for hunting deer.
- noun [Eng.] an officer in the royal household.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
hound for huntingdeer .
Etymologies
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buck + hound
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Examples
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Sooth to say, there is ne'er a buckhound in the county but he treateth him as a godchild, patting him on the head, soothing his velvety ear between thumb and forefinger, ejecting tick from tenement, calling him 'fine fellow,'
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819
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