boozehound

noun

Etymology

From booze + hound.

  1. inherited from *hundaz
  2. inherited from *hund
  3. inherited from hund
  4. inherited from hound
  5. compounded as boozehound — “booze + hound

Definitions

  1. alcoholic, drunkard

    • A 47-year-old, nondescript boozehound who once programmed computers for the French government, Houellebecq is an unlikely choice as either a literary lion or sacrificial lamb.
    • He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boozehound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA