Meaning

1 senses

  1. To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He has a hangdog face.

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Origin

From hang + dog.

From hang + dog.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

hangdogs, hangdogging, hangdogged, hangdogged
Base formhangdog · to hangdog
3rd person singularhangdogs
Present participlehangdogging
Past simplehangdogged
Past participlehangdogged

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhangdog
he, she, ithangdogs

Past simpleLesson

all personshangdogged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hangdogged
he, she, ithas hangdogged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hangdog

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hangB1hangarhangerhangingB1hangman

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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