gazehound

See also: gaze-hound

English

WOTD – 26 August 2023

Etymology

PIE word
*ḱwṓ

The borzoi is a breed of gazehound or sighthound.

From gaze (noun) +‎ hound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪzhaʊnd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪzˌhaʊnd/
• Hyphenation: gaze‧hound

Noun

gazehound (plural gazehounds)

1. Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).

   Coordinate term: scent hound

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61:

     And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.

   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 250:

     I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.

Alternative forms

• gaze-hound

Translations

synonym of sighthound — see sighthound

Further reading

• sighthound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia