bloodhound

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈblʌd.haʊnd/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
    — Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.
  2. A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues. figuratively,informal
  3. A bloodthirsty person. archaic
    — For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey, Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deep Their gluttony of death; the loose array Of horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep, And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap A harvest sown with other hopes; […]

词形变化

bloodhounds plural blood-hound alternative bloudhound alternative bloud-hound alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bloodhounding bloodhoundish

词源

Inherited from Middle English blodhound, blodhond; equivalent to blood + hound. Cognate with Dutch bloedhond (“bloodhound”), Middle Low German blōthunt (“bloodhound”), German Bluthund (“bloodhound”), Danish blodhund (“bloodhound”), Swedish blodhund (“bloodhound”). The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.
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