The noun 'hound' is a common gendernoun, a word for a hunting breed of dog that can be a male or a female. The gender noun for a male is dog; the gender noun for a female is bitch.
The noun 'hound' is a common gender noun, a word for a hunting breed of dog that can be a male or a female. The gender noun for a male is dog; the gender noun for a female is bitch.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.
The noun 'hound' is a common gender noun as a word for a type of breed of dog, male or female.
The gender specific nouns for dogs are:
Mare
To call someone feminine
The noun hounds has synonyms dogs, canines, or mutts. The verb "to hound" is to pester, to harass, or to nag
You can call a female poet a poetess (although it's a very old fashioned word).
A hound is a hunting dog. If you "hound" someone, you can also be said to "dog" them -- it means you hunt them tirelessly, following after them and usually bothering them.
Countess is the feminine term
There is no feminine version of the word "hound". The proper term for any female dog is "bitch".
The French word for low is "bas," or "basse" in the feminine form, so perhaps you're thinking of the bassett hound?
I own a Rottweiler/Basset Hound mix....I call him a Rott-N-Basset.
A garbage hound
An ewe
duch
feminine for sure, dont call your son fay.
"Hound dog" is slang, it basically describes a person, typically male, that eagerly goes after women, which is his only mission in life..
No, The hound that killed Charles Baskerville by giving him a heart attack and tried to kill Henry Baskerville was bought by Stapleton so it would look like the curse was real and nobody would suspect him when he tried to claim the baskerville fortune since he was in fact a Baskerville himself. So it was a hound but not the hound from the curse or legend as you might call it.
If there was a female president you would call her "Madam President"
Anyone with feminine tendencies (gay or straight) could be called effeminate.
You can, it just evolved from the Brit's expression "riding the hounds" for fox hunting and the hound type is best to use because of keener sense of smell..