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deerhound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

Syllables
deer-hound
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally bred in Scotland for hunting deer

Etymology

From Middle English *deerhound, *deerehund, from Old English *dēorhund (attested in hēahdēorhund (“stag-hound, deer-hound, a dog for hunting great game”)), equivalent to deer + hound.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *deerhound, *dēorhund

Inflected Forms

deerhounds (plural)

Synonyms

scottish deerhound

Questions

What does deerhound mean?
a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally bred in Scotland for hunting deer
Where does deerhound come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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