bitchhound

English

Noun

bitchhound (plural bitchhounds)

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of bitch hound.
   • 1913, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 100, page 140:

     The bitchhounds were judged by Sir Wm. Hyde Parker and Mr. H. E. Preston.

   • 1965, Henry Dumas, "Double Nigger", in Paul Beatty, Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor, Bloomsmury, page 178.

     Hell, I ain't have no place to run. I jumped up on the well cover and must've busted it then, cause it's gone now as yall can see, and jist bout time I got up, the bitchhound was snappin at me, mean as a peckerwood's dog wants to be.

   • 1965, Camilo José Cela, translated by Herma Briffault and Las Americas Publishing Company, Pascual Duarte and His Family, page 25:

     When we turned back towards the house, the bitchhound ran ahead and always waited for me at the crossroads.

   • in Clarence Major (ed.), Calling the wind: Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories, HarperPerennial (1993), page 385.

     The bitchhound which drives them to hell and causes them to string atrocities together as beads later to be called history.