Adjective: houndish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more houndish |
| Superlative | most houndish |
Sample Sentences
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This the "free" burgher of our Civilisation calls "houndish fidelity," with a contemptuous accent on the "hound." [1897, Richard Wagner, Religion and art:]
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[...] houndish face was anything but memorable, yet Verna felt certain she had seen it somewhere before. "Delfred! Delfred! Delfred! Woof! Woof! Woof!" continued the chant outside the garden wall. [1994, Jack Lovejoy, Outworld Cats:]
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Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red. [2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight:]
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Lucrezia laughed, a houndish laugh, almost a baying. [2010, Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror:]
Adjectives inflected like houndish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
honds', German Adjectives '
hündisch'.