Hound vs Gound - What's the difference?
hound | gound |
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)
(by extension) Someone who seeks something.
* 1996 , Marc Parent, Turning Stones , , ISBN 0151002045, page 93,
* 2004 , , ISBN 0743486196, page 483,
(by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females.
* 1915 , , volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in ''Harper's Monthly Magazine , volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
A despicable person.
* Shakespeare
* Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me
A houndfish.
(nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
In more recent times, hound' has been replaced by ' dog but the sense remains the same.
To persistently harass.
Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
*2002 , Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English :
*2004 , Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff :
*2009 , Ammon Shea, Reading the OED :
Gummy matter in sore eyes.
As nouns the difference between hound and gound
is that hound is a dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter) while gound is mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.As a verb hound
is to persistently harass.hound
English
Noun
(en noun)- On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
- I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound , because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
- "Are you alone, Goodson?
- "She had a good many successors, John."
- "You are such a hound , in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
- Boy! false hound !
- 'You blackmailing hound ,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
Derived terms
* Afghan hound * autograph hound * bloodhound * clean as a hound's tooth * gazehound * greyhound, grayhound * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * hound dog * houndish * houndlike * houndly * houndstooth * houndy * publicity hound * rock hound * sighthound * wolfhound * boar hound * hell hound * war hound * hounds of warVerb
(en verb)- He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
Anagrams
*gound
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound'. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the ' gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."
- Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound ".
- The gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes. Gound is the perfect example of a word that is practically useless, and yet still nice to know.