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sea hound

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables
sea hound
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dogfish (kind of shark).

Etymology

From sea + hound. Compare formally similar Dutch zeehond (“seal”), German Seehund (“seal”), which are alterations of earlier Dutch zaalhond (literally “seal-hound”) (<Middle Dutch saelhont, seelhont), earlier German Seelhund (literally “seal-hound”).

Inflected Forms

sea hounds (plural) seahound (alternative)

Questions

What does sea hound mean?
A dogfish (kind of shark).
Where does sea hound come from?
From sea + hound. Compare formally similar Dutch zeehond (“seal”), German Seehund (“seal”), which are alterations of earlier Dutch zaalhond (literally “seal-hound”) (<Middle Dutch saelhont, seelhont), earlier German Seelhund (literally “seal-hound”).

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