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bloodhound

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20
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10
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/ˈblʌd.haʊnd/ (UK)

Definition of bloodhound

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
    “Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.”
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noun

  1. A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
    “Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.”
  2. (figuratively, informal)A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.
  3. (archaic)A bloodthirsty person.
    “For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey, Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deep Their gluttony of death; the loose array Of horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep, And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap A harvest sown with other hopes; […]”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English blodhound, blodhond; equivalent to blood + hound. Cognate with Dutch bloedhond (“bloodhound”), Middle Low German blōthunt (“bloodhound”), German Bluthund (“bloodhound”), Danish blodhund (“bloodhound”), Swedish blodhund (“bloodhound”). The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.

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