greyhound

See also: Greyhound

English

A greyhound

Alternative forms

• grayhound

Etymology

From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey +‎ hound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪhaʊnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

greyhound (plural greyhounds)

1. A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:

     Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.

2. A highball cocktail of vodka and grapefruit juice.
3. (dated) A swift steamer, especially an ocean steamer.

Synonyms

• (highball cocktail): salty dog

Derived terms

• Arabian Greyhound
• greyhound racing
• Italian greyhound

 

Translations

lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing

• Albanian: zagar (sq) m, çap (sq) m, langua (sq) m
• Bulgarian: хрътка (bg) f (hrǎtka)
• Catalan: llebrer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰獵犬 / 灰猎犬 (zh) (huīlièquǎn), 灰狗 (huīgǒu)

• Czech: anglický chrt m
• Dutch: windhond (nl)
• Esperanto: leporhundo
• Finnish: englanninvinttikoira, greyhound (fi)
• French: lévrier (fr) m, levrette (fr) f
• German: Windhund (de) m, Windhundrüde m, Windhündin f, Windhundwelpe m
• Irish: cú (ga) m
• Japanese: グレーハウンド (gurēhaundo), グレイハウンド (gureihaundo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاجی (tacî), تانجی (tancî)

  Northern Kurdish: tajî (ku)

• Latvian: kurts (lv) m
• Malay: anjing greyhound
• Manx: coo glass m, coo liauyr m
• Navajo: łééchąąłgaii
• Occitan: lebreta f, lebrièr m
• Old English: grīġhund m
• Ottoman Turkish: تازی (tazı)
• Polish: chart (pl) m
• Portuguese: galgo (pt) m
• Russian: борза́я (ru) f (borzája), грейха́унд (ru) m (grɛjxáund)
• Slovak: chrt (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: chart m

• Spanish: galgo (es) m
• Tagalog: galgo
• Turkish: tazı (tr)
• Volapük: lievadog
• Welsh: milgi m, miliast f

Verb

greyhound (third-person singular simple present greyhounds, present participle greyhounding, simple past and past participle greyhounded)

1. (transitive, of fish) To leap rapidly across the surface of the water.