英语词汇“grew、hound”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

grew-hound

释义

grew-hound Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈgr(j)uːhaʊnd|
Forms: 4 grewhounde, 5 grewhonde, grohund, grou, grw hund, 5–6 grew hund, grew-hund, grewe hound, 7–9 grewhound, 9 grue hound.
[app. an etymologizing alteration (as if meaning ‘Greek hound’: see grew a.) of greund.]
A greyhound.
a1400Morte Arth. 1075 He grevede as a grewhounde.c1440Gesta Rom. lxxviii. 398 (Add. MS.) The grewhonde of aubry had kepte iiij. dayes the dede body of his mayster from briddes and bestes.1473in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 44 To fech a grew hund to the king.1580Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 20 One brace of blacke grewe houndes.1668N. Riding Rec. VI. 124 Two Croft yeomen presented for keeping grewhounds.a1802Ld. Thomas & Fair Annie xxiv. in Child Ballads (1885) II. 70/2 Gin..I were a grew hound..Soon worried they a' should be.1887Scotsman 4 Mar. 2/2 Grue hound (steel grey) found; if not claimed in three days will be sold.

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