bitchhound

English

Noun

bitchhound (plural bitchhounds)

  1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of bitch hound.
    • 1913, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, Vol. 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, Pascual Duarte and His Family, tr. by Herma Briffault, Las Americas Publishing Company, 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.
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