Hound and Snake

Hound

Hound noun - A mean, evil, or unprincipled person.

Usage example: a no-good hound who got his girlfriend pregnant and then took off

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Snake and hound are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Snake" instead a noun "Hound".

Nearby Words: hounded, hounding

Snake noun - A person whose behavior is offensive to others.

Usage example: why, that dirty, rotten snake!

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Hound and snake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hound" instead a noun "Snake".

Nearby Words: snaking, snaky

certain	certain hound	certain snake
total	total hound	total snake
original	original hound	original snake
half	half hound	half snake
Other adjectives: cowardly, nasty, real, arrogant, enormous, monstrous, huge, evil, little, bad, black, young, new, deadly, gigantic, literal, giant, demonic, aforementioned, eponymous.

The Bishop of Southwark seems to have a thing against serpents, but the Hound of Heaven he's trying to breed is a pearly-white snake with the ability to sense and hunt devils.

Source: Video Game / Fallen London
In The Silmarillion, Sauron at one point becomes a snake in an effort to defeat Huan, the Hound of Valinor.

Source: Scaled Up
Orthros, the hound of Geryon, Orthros had two heads and a snake for a tail.

Source: Canis Major

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