Definizione monolingua

hangdog

hangdog (plural hangdogs)

1. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

hangdog (not comparable)

1. Low; sneaking; ashamed.
   • ?, Thackeray

     The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.

   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 16, page 180, ¶ 6

     Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.

Definizione dizionario hangdog

avanzo di galer

avanzo di galera

avvilito

come un cane bastonato

Altri significati:

Low; sneaking; ashamed.

A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.