otter hound

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   hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters

   Synonymsotterhound

   Broaderhound

Questions about otter hound

What does otter hound mean?

otter hound means "hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters".

What is another word for otter hound?

Close synonyms include otterhound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is otter hound a common word?

otter hound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.