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HOUND

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hound I. substantiv

1. câine, câine de vânătoare, mai ales copoi;

(mitol.) the hound of Hell cerber;

to follow (the) hounds a vâna călare şi cu câini;

master of hounds maestru de vânătoare.

2. (amer. sl.) publicity hound amator de autoreclamă; participant la jocul hare and hounds (v. hare (1)).

3. (peior.) canalie, câine;

he’s an unmitigated hound e un om câinos;

you miserable hound! câine! mizerabile;

hound II. verb tranzitiv

1. a hăitui (vânatul).

2. to hound smb. down a urmări pe cineva cu înverşunare;

to hound (a dog) at / on smb. a asmuţi (un câine) împotriva cuiva.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I was not such a selfish hound as that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he was going too fast, and the hound was too close.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

How say you, old war-hound, will you not have a flight shot or two with this springald?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why not give them a change of treatment? Take them aboard, and deal gently with them. Whatever they have done they have been hounded into doing.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Take that, you hound—and that!—and that!—and that!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime I will do a little quiet work at your own doors, and perhaps the scent is not so cold but that two old hounds like Watson and myself may get a sniff of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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