What does it mean and where does it come from? I have also heard it with an added word "hang dog hotel" used in a song any ideas?
2007-03-07 07:42:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Goes back to Elizabethan times:
Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases
by James Main Dixon - 1891 - 384 pages
A hang-dog look—a guilty, depressed appearance
Hang-dog, n. Mean, base, or scurvy fellow 1871
hang'dog, n. A low, mean, base fellow. ...1899
Hang-dog—a fellow whose looks betray the gallows. Such an one once accused is half-hung already. 1823
2007-03-07 08:08:16 · answer #1 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my dictionery 'hang dog' means a low fellow, like such a fellow with a sneaking look. It's usually used to describe the look on sucha person's face 'a hang dog expression'.
2007-03-07 15:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋